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... character and his career, is that he was the last of the Whigs. There are men to-day whom our po litical jargon dubs Whigs there are still prominent members of the old Whig family; but they are innocent of Whig- gerv, they have little in common with the men who ...
... books, I was tempted to take them in and to re-arrange them on my shelves. It is the relics of a representative library of a Whig country house of about 1840. I found among my share one or two little lost gems. Two tiny volumes of Horace (Elzevirs of 1627) ...
... Country-house life in Whig circles scarcely veiled adultery, selfish extravagance, drunkenness and time-waste. Whig Society. Here and there; sober writers who own (or have access to) the documents upon which a just estimate of these Whigs can alone be based ...
... clink and jingle of the skaters and J|j^ the murmur of the curling stone. 2|| No party politics around our tee, isjfsj For Whig and Tory on the ice agree JsWff Glory we play for may it be our lot gi&l. To gain the bonspiel by a single shot. True feelings ...
... Scotland, a town house, and a country house near Hatfield, Hertfordshire, which once belonged to Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's Whig Minister ...
... STALWARTS OF LIBERALISM RETURN: Mr. Lloyd George and his family were greeted on board the Andalusia by prominent West Country Whigs on their return from South America THE CONSERVATIVES HOLD THEIR OWN The scene at the declaration of the poll, showing that ...
... , who will wed the Hon. W. H. Smith, the son of Viscount Hambleden, next month CAMBRIDGE HONOURS SIR JOHN SIMON: The great Whig, who has only recently returned from an epoch-making investigation in India, with Sir Barrington Hurst in the procession to ...
... ship, and Jack Nastyface into the bargain, slick away, as Jonathan says, to Davy's locker. Now Jack Nastyface represents the Whigs and Radicals-- very good fellows, I dare say but keep 'em in their places don't let 'em come upon the quarter-deck of the country ...
... the Napoleon of Conser vatism, Mr. Herbert Rathbone, more than another the true type of semi-philanthropic, semi -aesthetic Whig; Mr. Max Muspratt. These as men mean more, perhaps, to the city than the things for which they stand or fight. The public life ...
... the Whigs in the great era when the Whig aristocracy was a mighty political force the most bigoted and exclusive aristocracy that ever waved the flag of democracy. Later, the house was a noble centre of taste and culture which carried on the Whig traditions ...
... week in the family burial-ground at Kilmun, was, like his grandfather, the eighth Duke (who was a great character among the Whig statesmen of the Victorian era), a strong personality who defended his beliefs with passionate intensity. He was a devoted ...