... flagrantly inaccurate statements and wilder assumptions contained in the more recent commentaries on the period of the Regency or Whig supremacy and on the life of Lady Bessborough herself.” Lady Bessborough could comment shrewdly on public affairs. Writiifg ...

... refreshed at an old house, now a tea - shop, [which] claims to have been his lodgings.” Lord Justice MacKinnon remarks : The Whig dogs have had all the best of it about Jeffreys. I have no desire to whitewash him, but I sure he was not the unmitigated ...

... VIEW OF THE NATIVE CANTONMENT AT HABBANIYEH, WHICH WAS SHELLED BY THE IRAQI TROOPS. SHOWING THE HOUSES BUILT EASTERN STYLE WHIG. ACCOMMODATE THE LARGE NUMBER OF NATIVE WORKMEN EMPLOYED AT THE STATION, WITH THEIR FAMILIES. ...

... are necessary in a time of supreme national danger: they were used by Elizabeth when she was fighting Philip of Spain, by the Whig Government of 1689 when it was fighting Louis XIV., and by William Pitt the younger when he was fighting revolutionary France ...

... so because, despite strongly expressed differences as to method, all Britons virtually believed in the same ultimate truths. Whig and Tory, Liberal, Conservative, and Radical shared a common moral purpose. They did not always live up to it, of course, but ...

... the Lays of Ancient Rome,” by Lord Macaulay, who secreted in those stirring verses all that romanticism which, owing to his Whig and Covenanting convictions, he had to leave out of his brilliant but biased history. But my generation was brought up on those ...