... thirteen years old. The origin of Stowe in brief came to pass in this way. The historic Stowe House, famous as the centre of Whig politics in the eighteenth century, was doomed to destruction and a fate that was even worse-- the passing of that most beautiful ...

... soldiers. People lose their tempers over him, families quarrel bitterly, just as they did in the good old days when Whigs and Tories were really Whigs and tones, politics were taken au grand serieux, and political warfare attained a height inconceivable to us ...

... how some of them escaped the searching axes of 1832-36. In the matter of wasting public funds we are too apt to condemn the Whig and Tory aristo crats of the Reform Bill Age as selfish and cynical job-mongers and squan derers. If there is a case against ...

... as strange that Thomas Creevey, a person of somewhat' obscure birth, should have been admitted on such familiar terms to the Whig circle the most exclusive of all political parties. It was not until these volumes had been published that the puzzle was explained ...

... g party label than Liberalism 130 years ago. And yet for twenty years of the crassest Tory administration in history, the Whigs and Liberals remained in the Wilderness, quarrelling and divided. And since 1812, with two or three brief interludes in which ...

... his speeches as a Radical when he preached the gospel of humanity, as he called his doctrine, and ridiculed and denounced Whigs andTories; others think his debating style was most trenchant when he was resisting Home Rule, jeering at alienated friends ...

... Statute Book. But in theory I am delighted to hear that Liberalism is still a live force. These Liberals are the heirs of the Whigs, and the latest historical theory I have read (ex Cambridge Professor of History) argues convincingly that all our national ...

... Conservative. They certainly will not vote for the Unionist party, for that party, formed by the junction of the Hartington Whigs and the Chamberlain Radicals with the Con servatives in 1895, was dissolved in 1922 when the Union was destroyed by the treaty ...

... Fisher THE LIBERAL INFLUX The Marquis of Reading, who goes to the Foreign Office, and Sir Herbert Samuel, Deputy Leader of the Whigs, who takes on the arduous duties of the Home Office THE HOMELESS HOME SECRETARY: Mr. J. R. Clynes, w lose office is being ...

... the Tierna More, commanded a troop of the Inniskilling Dragoons at the battle of Aughrim, and was attainted on account of his Whig principles by James II. in the Parliament held at Dublin in 1690. He lived to be a member of Parliament under William III. ...

... Old Whigs. He believed in the benevolent despot, and when he failed to find him he had no other resource. The great reformers of the last, decade or so, Chang-Chih-Tung, Yuan- Shi- Kai, and even Kang-Yu-Wei, have all been of this essentiall}' Whig school ...

... It was so certainly in the case of Whig historians v. George the Third. I took care, said Dr. Johnson, speaking of his faked reports of parliamentary speeches, that the Whig dogs should have the worst of it. The Whig dogs have taken care that George the ...