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... The famous Lady Melbourne succeeded by Lady Conyngham held a despotic position over society and these were followed by great Whig hostesses such as Lady Palmerston. In those days the old aristocracy were firmly seated in the saddle and the great families ...
... pleasure-hunting people were beginning to suspect that England was not quite healthy. Now 1 am afraid these old- time Liberal and Whig valua tions have disappeared. The old men have made fortunes and the young men have dreamt night mares. The soldiers believed ...
... reference without which no gentleman's library is complete. When old John Debrett, the Piccadilly bookseller, favoured by the Whigs, started his famous peerage in 1784, it needed but three small volumes of 400 pages each to-day it has blossomed into a teeming ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... did a quarter of a century ago Almost equally grotesque is the im passioned defence of the Corsican by our own philosophic Whigs like Lord Rosebery though the funniest thing of all has been the physical imitation of the Emperor by some individuals, even ...
... help from his Ministers, gratified Lord Morley by describing him as the only representative left in the Cabinet of the old Whigs. Lord Morley, it should be said, was always particularly scrupulous in consulting the King's personal feelings so as to avoid ...
... 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 ...
... left, were safe. The landowning classes, through the Houses of Parliament, secured and main tained control of the realm. The Whig oligarchy, under Walpole, was succeeded by the Tory oligarchy under Pitt. Both upheld the existing system against all comers ...