... read them yourself to know how delightful they are. Their portraiture of the Whig men and women who ruled the land are superb the picture they give of family life and of Whig society is enchanting. Much of this society was made up merely of rich and idle ...

... Aristocratic London, in that age of high politics, had its definably political strongholds Hanover Square was the focus of a Whig neighbourhood, Cavendish Square of a Tory. The comparative failure of Cavendish Square in view of its projector's first aspiration ...

... speaker. Liberal crowds have much the poorer aim, he adds, being accustomed to being addressed by very vile, oily, stink ing Whigs in turn-down collars, with pro tuberant Adam's apples, a sanctimonious turn of speech, and a morbid love for the League of ...

... than she did his courtship of Queen Anne's Tories had been promising, but then came suspicious hostility from the Hanoverian Whigs. Relations with the French Regent, d'Orleans, were not improved by the fact that Philip V. of Spain, whom Alberoni organised ...

... revolu tionary Paris, in the Dublin of Grattan's Parliament, in the London of Devon shire House and its surround of brilliant Whig society, at seaside Frescati, with its lilacs and breezes, at idyllic little Kildare Lodge, at the edge of the Curragh each ...

... unknowingly slaves of a wrong idea. The Oligarchy, descendants of the bad barons, impinge on more modern history as odious Whigs. Any kings that they did back up were their bought men. They failed to buy up the Stuarts Stuarts (with the doubtful exception ...

... When he d d join in debate he was forthright and compelling. Many people regard him as one of the few survivors of the old Whig politicians. To this day he writes most of his letters in his own hand, and has them delivered by messenger. State Funerals ...