... agreeable tipple would interest and surprise George IV., who won the battle of Waterloo on it, or thought he did. Official or Whig English history is such a mass of technicoloured folklore that we never understand why the historians dis miss George- IV. ...

... some three centuries ago, as the symbol of French tyranny from which that grim pansy William of Orange delivered us, so the Whigs allege. (The miserable French peasant starved and wore wooden shoes, the happy English peasant trod on leather and was full ...

... revolu tionary Paris, in the Dublin of Grattan's Parliament, in the London of Devon shire House and its surround of brilliant Whig society, at seaside Frescati, with its lilacs and breezes, at idyllic little Kildare Lodge, at the edge of the Curragh each ...

... more unique exhibition of in dependence, perhaps, in countries where historians habitually use original documents, but as the Whigs who have cornered English history prefer to use their imagina tion anyway, it was just a normal happening. And perhaps it was ...

... in the room, and further, whether it was a National Liberal, a Simonite, a Wee Free, or a Lloyd- Georgite, or a common Grey Whig with the black markings round the muzzle (to be carefully distinguished from the almost extinct Black Hanoverian species, now ...

... Britannica, apparently, but as we rarely consult that massive work, on account of the suburban prejudices of many of the Whigs hired to write in it, we can't con firm this. If you think we have an un reasonable down on the Enc. Britt. boys, look up (e ...

... mostly drunk like the Vikings, but oddly enough unlike our Sturdy Saxon Forbears, of whom you have read in the official or Whig history books. Mr. Belloc's Mrs. Markham explains the Saxon position very nicely to Tommy and Mary in her famous chats on English ...

... According to the member who gave us the information, women sicken readily of the embraces of Whigs, complaining of the oily flavour. This complaint goes back to the Great Whig Double-Cross of 1688, when the rich betrayed James II. Ladies of quality then took to ...

... superstition, and serfdom. From the doom of wooden shoes William of Orange saved us, not to speak of his rouged and dainty Whig mignons. (Wooden shoes were also worn at this period by Dutchmen and Scandinavians, and clogs by the English of the North, ...

... than she did his courtship of Queen Anne's Tories had been promising, but then came suspicious hostility from the Hanoverian Whigs. Relations with the French Regent, d'Orleans, were not improved by the fact that Philip V. of Spain, whom Alberoni organised ...