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Up and Down the Land
... 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 ...
OTHER THINGS THAN WAR. . .: The Passing of Dinner and of Courtesy in Diplomacy; Chance Immortality; The Fog of ..
... 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 ...
BRITISH HISTORY IN STONE
... 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 ...
A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 102
... 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 ...
OTHER THINGS THAN WAR . . .: Labouring with One's Hands, A Full House, Lady Beatrice, A Note on the Old School ..
... 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 ...