... Cumberland's having billeted himself and his staff therein for six weeks during the winter of 1746, and this should satisfy Whig and Hanoverian (both go same bag) heroworshippers of Sweet William. On the ot'her hand if the authorities' only reason for ...

... of clan sentiment and ancestral heroworship spices the pages. Mr Howlett, like Dr Johnson before him, takes care that the Whig dogs (in this case the ducal families of Montrose and Atholl) get the worst of it. The author has attempted to sort out fact ...

... seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, who fought for the factory Jaws to improve working conditions . . . against the opposition of Whig industrialists and many Utilitarian Liberals. And later, Disraeli's Conservative Party, against the bourgeois opposition ...