... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... securing the mater ial welfare of the working classes. Moral welfare, they believed, would fol low automatically. All for Love. Whig society, in the mid-eighteenth century, was more straitlaced than it later became under the presidency of Georgiana Duchess ...