... books, I was tempted to take them in and to re-arrange them on my shelves. It is the relics of a representative library of a Whig country house of about 1840. I found among my share one or two little lost gems. Two tiny volumes of Horace (Elzevirs of 1627) ...

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... Country-house life in Whig circles scarcely veiled adultery, selfish extravagance, drunkenness and time-waste. Whig Society. Here and there; sober writers who own (or have access to) the documents upon which a just estimate of these Whigs can alone be based ...

... daughter visited him there, and later it was bought by Charles Fox, father of Charles James Fox, and became the rallying-point of Whig Society. Wanton ruin and destruction Most of the chief treasures of Holland House were removed before the war, but a number ...

... week in the family burial-ground at Kilmun, was, like his grandfather, the eighth Duke (who was a great character among the Whig statesmen of the Victorian era), a strong personality who defended his beliefs with passionate intensity. He was a devoted ...

... 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 ...

... Rocca d'Evandro had to be cleared by the British infantry before the Germans were finally ejected from the jagged mountain mass whig they had been defending so desperately. But when this had been done another barrier on the Road to Rome had been successfully ...

... paralysing divisions of the Whig Opposition could have kept the Tories' long and weak administrations in power for so many years. The mountain and other cliques, the disloyalties and the private vendettas, these kept the Whigs in the wilderness for twenty-three ...

... 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 ...

... as strange that Thomas Creevey, a person of somewhat' obscure birth, should have been admitted on such familiar terms to the Whig circle the most exclusive of all political parties. It was not until these volumes had been published that the puzzle was explained ...

... g party label than Liberalism 130 years ago. And yet for twenty years of the crassest Tory administration in history, the Whigs and Liberals remained in the Wilderness, quarrelling and divided. And since 1812, with two or three brief interludes in which ...

... Statute Book. But in theory I am delighted to hear that Liberalism is still a live force. These Liberals are the heirs of the Whigs, and the latest historical theory I have read (ex Cambridge Professor of History) argues convincingly that all our national ...