... THE WHIG SUPREMACY by BASIL WILLIAMS 12/6 net THE AGE OF REFORM: ...

... held in connection with Northern Ireland hospitals, nursing and health services. This comment was reported in the Northern Whig and Belfast Post, which described how the students ‘“gazed in open-eyed wonder not at the more sensational of the gleaming ...

... earn for this work the title of * Chad’s Dictionary,” is the removal of the breathing in words beginning with wh, like when, Whig, whopper, etc. The Dictionary, which ** conveys easily and unmistakably the accepted pronunciation in every case,”’ says that ...

... fail to appreciate the liveliness and good humour of these memoirs . . . related with a friendly and tolerant air. NORTHERN WHIG A volume which will fill those too young to remember them with envious.wonder and those of us who do with acute nostalgia ...

... 173 to No; 190 Piccadilly, and was by this time in the front rank of booksellers. “ Debrett’s was the chief haunt of the Whigs, Hatchard’s I believe, of the Tories,”” wrote Disraeli. “It was at the latter house that my father, Isaac d’lsraeli, made the ...

... century. In 1702 there was founded what was known as the Kitcat Club, a club with political objects formed by members of the Whig aristocracy. Many well-known names were connected with it, including literary figures such as Steele and Addison, and it soon ...

... speech of Pitt’s which read like Demosthenes, the Doctor replied: ‘1 saved appearances tolerably well, but 1 tcok care the Whig dogs did not have the best of it”’. Direct suppression ceased after 1771, after a legal battle in which the famous John Wilkes ...

... generally felt little if ap, opposition to the Moberly Poo| originally constituted; that is, , reserve of paper by means of whig important books which could ng otherwise be produced would b enabled to survive. A supple mentary reserve to publishers quotas ...

... 173 to No; 190 Piccadilly, and was by this time in the front rank of booksellers. “ Debrett’s was the chief haunt of the Whigs, Hatchard’s I believe, of the Tories,”” wrote Disraeli. “It was at the latter house that my father, Isaac d’lsraeli, made the ...

... Mexican War. In the memorable words of Lowell :— “ Ez to my princerples, I glory In hevin’ nothin’ o’ the sort ; I ain’t a Whig, I ain’t a Tory, I’'m just a candidate, in short.” Several great Americans were then visiting Europe, and among them was Emerson ...

... ; but the greatest name in that year’s obituaries was that of Alain René Le Sage, author of Gil Blas. Samuel Parr, the ‘“ Whig Johnson,” who was among the celebrities born in 1747, wrote voluminously, but, like his Tory counterpart, owes his fame more ...

... survival. But I cannot claim to be a disciple of Shaw’s. I am not a Fabian, not even a young Tory. I am one of the last surviving Whigs. There are ' two or three altogether. I don't know who the other two are. I am afraid Mr. Shaw is not one of them. “ Enough ...