... his death, even consulted his barbe during a shave, on the propriety of ordering lhat famous requiem for himself which th Whigs have so garbled and roman ticised. What Charles's barber (who was very reasonable on this point) charged is not known. Some ...

... for Weimar and Berlin, drifted back, had better treatment, and spent his last five years in a manner very disconcert ing to Whigs, his dying words being I have lived en philosophe, I die a Christian. Thus the restless old rascal left the stage, penitent ...

... II. Wyndham Lewis IT takes the Reform and the Nat. Lib. Club Committees only a couple of weeks to banish the smell of warm Whigs from their marble halls, we observe, whereas most of the other leading clubs have closed for a month for cleaning and redecoration ...

... precise contrary is the truth, and we deem Wells to err damnably. We love Whigs. Their earnestness uplifts and braces us. They are dear fellows, dear persons. One or two charming Whigs are close friends of ours, valued advisers, deep thinkers, candidates ...

... seems to us not only a very natural Liberal cultus, sprung from That Awful Repres sion, but the missing explanation of all Whig history, of Froude's worship of Henry VIII and Carlyle's worship of Frederick the Great. Does this bore you Vety well, a song ...

... further with a tastefully engraved skull and crossbones to remind the rich that they are not (as they think) immortal. The Whigs stopped all this nonsense in 1688, unless we err. As for sundials, nervous and wealthy but important chaps even today are often ...

... 1798, during the Napoleonic Wars, William Pitt the Younger was so infuriated by the near-Quisling attitude of Tierney, the Whig leader, that they fought a duel on a Saturday afternoon on Putney Heath, before a crowd of 2000 people, with the Speaker in ...

... nothing more dashing than horse-stealing. Nevertheless the Turpin Epic, as officially dished up, seems to us perfectly sound Whig history, and the York city authorities are right not to over-emphasise the facts about this fellow in their restoration of ...

... Garden early in the I760's. With illustrations by JACK MATTHEW. But was he not John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, notorious Whig-hater, astute politician, and among other exalted offices he had held First Lord of the Admiralty True, he was still legally ...

... that they were bound to inspire detraction and misrepre sentation. Unfashionable virtues always irritate. And the handful of Whigs who in Sheridan's latter days fought consistently and genuinely for social reform were never much encouraged by the Party's ...

... born Whig, oily from the cradle and spurning all the other holiday lectures offered to the little ones by the kindly science boys. One can't blame the Civil Engineers for encouraging this gens lubricata. Maybe they don't even know that tiny Whigs are bred ...

... the prescription nor shook the bottle. At twenty-two he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and lost no time in offending the Whig, Charles James Fox, for life. Fox laughed when the twenty-four-year-old Mr. Pitt sat down on the Treasury Bench in 1783, but ...