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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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) ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... speaker. Liberal crowds have much the poorer aim, he adds, being accustomed to being addressed by very vile, oily, stink ing Whigs in turn-down collars, with pro tuberant Adam's apples, a sanctimonious turn of speech, and a morbid love for the League of ...
... announced. The grants will be at the rate of 50 per cent, of the agreed estimated cost of clearing. c CRICKETER FARMER AIRMAN Whig -Commander Ilolmes, who captained the Sussex XI in '39, at a meeting of the East Sussex Farmers'' Union at Lewes. lie is an ...
... 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 ...