... piquet and ecarte in a quiet way, but not worth your attention. Hard and rugged times, my dear Payne And as these dominant Whigs*ihave abolished my place and its contingent bread, I am at present left to gnaw bones with the animals in the street. All up ...

... economic revolt tions and come triumphantly thron.e- The men in power are every whit as on pomp and circumstance as were great Whig governing class before Reform Bill. The Old Stages 350,000,000 GALLONS MISSING-- THE DISMAL SCENE AT HURY RESERVOIR, IN BALDERSDALE ...

... and how people enjoyed reading and talking about it. It was of a type very characteristic of that age and of the era of the Whigs 1830 to i860. It was slight and horridly snobbish, in the sense of being exclusive that is, of holding up to contempt or ridicule ...

... 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 ...

... man and not man for the says the Liberal. John Pym (1584-1643) is claim 1 the founder of the Liberal Party.4 The orilTn of Whig (from the Gaelic meaning to jogS w changed to Liberal until the middle of the nineteen^ century. Very little is said by the ...

... their times thrown by Emily Eden, Ouida or Elinor Glvn. The Sent i-att ached Couple is the age of the Reform Bill, as viewed in Whig circles the Visits of Elizabeth is the Edwardian age as lived in the circle of Privilege for any age a cross section of the ...

... casts But whether the war ends this year, next year, some time or never, food will be needed in ever- increasing bulk. As the Whig Duchess wrote when inviting an old friend to her husband's funeral And bring your gun whoever dies, the pheasants must be shot ...

... or display, but the name means something. There are still Englishmen who remember with gratitude the contributions of the Whigs and forget their past frailties and divisions. The post of Liberal Leader in either House may well gain in importance now, ...

... good of all. But these items which he lists were good in themselves, and will not go for good. Moreover, if he will read the Whig memoirs of 1820, or the Tory memoirs, of 1750, our author will find that doomed British institutions (good or bad) take an ...

... quite hopeful. It is a meaningless term to-day in a world of elasticity and broadening in politics as meaningless as the term Whig, from which it was a branch-off by adherents who realised the dead- ness of Whiggism a century ago. But, if Whiggism became ...

... Charing Cross, who knows Make it James II., to whom the modern Navy owes so much, whose memory is so grossly maligned by the Whigs, and we wouldn't mind rallying round and taking a crack at the greasy lying dogs, ourselves, and you can quote us as saying ...

... convenience. Irretrievably selfish, they were cast-iron bachelors. In wealth, and sometimes by birth, they were the equals of the Whig or Tory noblemen and gentlemen, whose equals and superiors the Mytton breed assuredly were in sport but it is impossible not ...