... Lehzen, that governess-in-chief of all the governesses that ever there were, who survived the downfall of Lord Melbourne's Whig Ministry and the coming into power of Tory Sir Robert Peel by more than a year, and then faded away to (Continued on p. 504) ...

... William was far ahead of his time in political understanding. He wanted to abolish the two contending political parties of Whig and Tory and form a national government composed of all parties for the good of the State. Mr. Godfrey Winn has the gift, unusual ...

... responsible in quelling the spurts of revolution, but William's refusal to allow himself to be stampeded by the threats of the Whigs or the shrieks of the Tories had probably an even greater influence. I THINK ahnost all my readers will enjoy Miss Thompson's ...

... at any rate, the precious memory of a Victorian upbringing in the still-living traditions of the great Whig days. The private language of the Whigs was still heard on the lips of the oldest generation. Gold was goold, lilac lay lock, bracelet brasslet ...

... champions Metternich, and the tone of the whole book is declared in the dedication The offering of a reviving Tory to a surviving Whig. Mr. Cecil is out to discredit democracy, and finds in Metternich and his policy a strong argument. It is a pity that a work ...

... have proved a sore trial in an age when the man in the street was enthusiastically discover ing politics for himself, when Whig and Tory were literally at each other's throats, and the glorious fervour of Eatanswill was already casting its shadow forward ...

... 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 ...