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... which fascinated Burns, was published in 1776, but its spirit is extraordinarily modern. Like some modern politicians, he bids Whig and Tory all agree and he bars dull Italian lays just as some of us denounce jazz: which only proves that the spinr oi irue ...
... Government known to the world, and the Talkie will be the medium. It was not so that England was governed in the bad old days of Whig Aristocracy. But the time is certainly ripe for popu larising politics. Politics have been out of fashion far too long. And ...
... of Prince Charlie with the following words woven with the Stewart tartan into its texture Let Tories guard their king while Whigs in halters swing. There is also a tin will-case dated 1610 which was found in a chimney. Another item of great interest is ...
... Lansdowne survive the high ideals and manners of the greatest epochs in our social and political life He is the last of the great Whigs who numbered in their ranks Lord Grey of the Reform Bill. He has lived well into an age when merit is assessed on Press notice ...
... any democratic system of politics. They show how far we have advanced since nose days when Great Britain was governed by the Whig and Tory oligarchs. Jn the United States, as in Great Britain, a rapid material development has offered baits for the greedy ...
... and we despise or ridicule anyone who works out the addition sum differently. Thus, in the 1830's, the great preposterous Whig families decided that coffee should be pronounced cawfee, and they shuddered at the vulgarity and ignorance of the masses ...
... despite the issues on which the Election was fought. Next comes Sir Donald MacLean, handsome, popular, the leader of the old Whig element in the party Walter Runciman, still known as Young Walter, though a Cabinet Minister twenty years ago. A great shipping ...
... followed up by the War Office librarian, Mr. Hudleston, in his recent volume of sparkling essays. Mr. Fortescue whips the Whigs, yet, though the Whiggish Macaulay was a very great offender in biased judgments, critical libels are not the monopoly of any ...
... long ago could be just as modern. Anyhow there is a letter which would suggest as much in Mabell, Countess of Airlie's, In Whig Society.. The letter was written by ill-starred Lady Caroline Lamb, who became Lady Melbourne, and who figures in the many-sided ...
... ha'p'orth of tar. In old days (the bad old days when England was governed most of .the year from the classic library of some great Whig country house, your Minister was a jack-of-all-trades and plunged into figures as lightheartedly as he plunged into war and ...
... politics. If one recalls the days when George IV's brothers babbled inadvisedly and allowed themselves to become the pawns of Whig or Tory, if one remembers some of the private expressions of opinion disclosed in Queen Victoria's earlier letters, one is ...
... with her own. That by her action she might have spread the- disease did not seem to her so important as upholding her ancient Whig creed of personal liberty. This same creed is now being appealed to by the opponents of Sir William Joynson- Hicks. Ever}'- ...