... 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 ...

... 'pothecary and little sawbones. Yet fantastically small-minded and damnably ignorant and bad-mannered as could be the great Whig ladies of those days, it can never be said of them that they valued or employed the terms gentleman and lady. They always ...

... used to sign H. Brougham for some time after he became a peer. Lymington married Miss Pease, and his father, a cynical old Whig, used to say his son had got Peace with Plenty. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Lord mouth married the daughter ...

... still play bridge and exchange modest wagers there. In old days, nothing was too trivial for a wager vide the old books. No Whig, of course, would have shown his face there in the days when polities were carried bitterly into home life. Charles 'Fox dis ...