... vast upheaval of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. He knew every member, every corner, every angle of the great Whig aristocracy which played such a dominant part in the history of the times, and he brings to life many forgotten men and records ...

... of their kind, and prove him to be a perfect editor as Creevey would have said, Was there ever All his. life Creevey was a Whig, member of a party de voted to the destruction of abuses and he began his political career by representing a pocket borough ...

... respect. He never looked for popularity, and he was never tolerant of fools or opponents. But he won a fine epitaph from a Whig who said, He is a gentleman steady in his principles, of nice honour, with abundance of learning, brave as the sword he wears ...

... subject for indiscriminate white washing, but that he was the victim of a good deal of malicious blackwashing on the part of Whig historians-- as well as by Thackeray --cannot for one moment be denied by the fair-minded. It is well to remember, as Mr. rulford ...

... harvest of cash and jewels, and it was typical of his luck that by the time he reached home, the Stuarts had been ejected, the Whigs were in power, and the great Monopolist East India Company was under a cloud. So White got clear away. It is an amazing tale ...

... bombast) he has every chance, but succeeds in eluding them all. Even Johnson, with his animus against those pestilential Whigs, knew when to remain silent upon so unstable a reputation. And now, lest we be surfeited with the great lives of great men ...

... 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 ...

... Melbourne and Queen Victoria's most respected adviser. In his youth he spent his time in brilliant and cultured company, but it was Whig company, and not renowned either for depth of feeling or soberness of opinion. His life was that of any young man of fashion: ...

... The Bystander Bookshelf Ourselves and the Whigs By V. S. Pritchett IF history does not repeat itself, there is pleasure in thinking that it does, and that, no doubt, is why the maxim was invented. The story of William Lamb, second Lord Melbourne, his ...

... 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 ...

... vices were equally in the grand manner, and poetry sold better than the most sensational fiction. That was the great time of Whig power, when Fox declared that he hated war, when Sheridan proclaimed the right of America to self-determina tion, when Grey ...

... away. Lady Bessborough and her sister, the famous Duchess of Devonshire, were, for more than twenty years, the leaders of Whig society and the inti mates of such personalities as Charles James Fox, Canning, and Madame RScamier. Miss Ethel Colburn Mayne's ...