... a shell the other day, was more than 300 years old and was in 1800 in the occupation of Charles Western, M.P. for Maldon, a Whig stalwart who knew a lot about agri culture, was known as stiff-rump and died Lord Western of Rivenhall in 1844. He was educated ...

... 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 ...

... 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) ...

... 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 ...

... It was almost resolved to pull it down. But wiser counsels prevailed, and a generation later the house was the homeof the Whigs and the epicentre of social life in London. Macaulay was among the last of those who helped to make the brilliance of its ...

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... Need I remind you of what Englishmen have thought of dinner as a sacred ceremony down the ages Let Creevey be quoted for the Whigs. Let Lord Lytton give evidence for the mid-Victorians. O hour of all hours, the most blessed upon earth, Blessed hour of our ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...