... old Holland House you can see through the gates if you walk up Holland Lane from Kensington High Street was the centre of the Whig party in the early days of the nineteenth century, and generally entertained the wit and talents of London. She herself is ...

... totally neglected on our stage. John Bull Calling shows us John Bull swathed on a sick-bed, nursed by Britannia. Dr. Tory, Dr. Whig, and Dr. Labour their names are different on the programme are squabbling about his ailment. He is ill, very ill, poor John ...

... attitude towards the whole reign is sufficiently indicated by the ironical paragraph with which he ushers it in The period of Whigs in clover was coming to an end. A new King had arisen to govern faithfully the English people, thanks to a dear mother, a dear ...

... than in the annals of Whig society, the most decorative, and from some points of view, the most civilised community that England has seen And where, the reader may ask, after finishing Lord David's chapter on the beau monde, could Whig society have found ...

... securing the mater ial welfare of the working classes. Moral welfare, they believed, would fol low automatically. All for Love. Whig society, in the mid-eighteenth century, was more straitlaced than it later became under the presidency of Georgiana Duchess ...

... the country. Each race had its own political convictions. There were seven main classes of opinion viz., staunch Whigs, timid Whigs, Whigs, jacks on both sides, Tories, moderate Tories, and furious Tories. The Soldier some ways Sergeant Lamb is a liability ...

... marries an English officer in the Duke of Cumberland's army.. There was nothing disloyal in that, for the Grahames were a Whig family. But Morag's eldest brother was a Jacobite, and when, clandestinely, she visits him in hiding, her spouse (was this ...