... second turned Newcome's into an extremely fashionable seminary for the sons of noblemen and gentlemen of (for the most part) Whig persuasion one of the earlier Newcomes had been tutor to Charles Fox and brought the numbers of the school up to eighty or ...

... innocent, which can't be said for everything dons do in their spare time, such as intriguing, knifing each other, writing Whig history, secret drinking, and so forth. Naturally this observation doesn't apply to the Public Orator or his deputy, who has ...

... Whiggish flavour of the cold game pie and scrambled eggs, the Whiggish sizzling of the urn, the untimely, half-aired atmosphere of Whig- gery and priggery faugh In that age practically everybody of note had a fearful liver and devoured enormous breakfasts (at ...

... of the Black Hole from the school-books we can't see much reasonable objection. It is mainly rhetoric, like 75 per cent, of Whig history, or folklore, and its accuracy has frequently been challenged by modern Hindu scholars, one of whom, a mathematician ...