... more dispassionate orator, none the less inspired for that. Both men had played their parts in the building of a new sort of Whig party. Both had been, in their respective ways, architects of the India Bill. Burke had devoted fourteen years to the task ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... or diffidence than to obstinacy or con servatism. Politically, he would have labelled himself a Liberal. In truth, he was a Whig of the 'old school, and shared all their enthusiasm for travelling across Europe. He put no non possumus to p.ny plan for a ...

... 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 ...

... Thomas Creevey, a Whig partisan, well known in his day, a placeman and letter-writer, lived his life nut between the era of the French Revolution and the accession of Queen Victoria, covering the long decline and the brief triumph of the Whigs, in an atmosphere ...

... 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 ...

... rejoined. Lady Ormonby's Creed. I have a sneaking admiration of that loyalty which was a special characteristic ol the old Whig aristocracy.. I mean, the determination to uphold one's class and never to admit that one's family can fall from grace'. Thus ...

... position in society, with rudimentary education and no private means, he depended far more on the patronage of his party (the Whigs) than did Greville. He was therefore more bitter and less judicial than Greville and his sketches and precis are less well ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...