... seem to be a Jacobite Tory, not only at odds with the Whigs and moderate T ories of the eighteenth century, but tracing all the troubles that have ever happened to us since, to those dogs of Whigs; a Johnsonian attitude, not easy without a good deal of ...

... letters, memoirs, essays, poetry, drama, diaries and State papers innumerable. Here are mighty battles being fought abroad; Whigs, Tories, Jacobites intriguing at home. The personal jealousies and rivalry of statesmen, the quarrels of various ladies round ...