... brittle glass-house from which to throw stones. Politically they equalled, socially they easily outdid the Whigs in their narrow exclusiveness. The Whigs of Mrs. Arbuthnot's day at least subscribed to a more democratic Who 's Who than a peerage. Useful men ...

... should have said that Mr. Bryant and Mr. Rouse are, among our historians, as pronounced Tories as Macaulay was a pronounced Whig. And here is Mr. Bryant drawn, willy- nilly, into the Socialist camp, brought forward as prophet and philosopher of the Welfare ...

... 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 ...

... hunting-field or on the stubbles and who was suspect to an insular, sport- loving nobility as a foreigner and an intellectual. The Whigs were not at all unwilling to do what they could for the young Queen's choice. Unfortunately, Lord Melbourne was always casual ...

... was a Gilbert- and-Sullivan-in-romantic-vein in his own person. He was one moiety of the drawing-room entertainment of great Whig houses in his time Albums (Views of Venice) and Tommy Moore's ballads. He was small, handsome, romantic and his throaty, small ...

... sixteenth century and earlier. In the eighteenth century the College became strongly Whig in complexion and enjoyed many of the ecclesiastical fruits of Whig patronage. This Whig connection continued until about 1850, when there was a swing over. During the ...

... forget to tell you that the parties have their different places, where, however, a stranger is always well received, but a Whig will no more go to the Cocoa-Tree, than a Tory will be seen at the coffee-house St. James's. The Scots go generally to the ...

... unique in political annals, for the country had three different Govern ments: Lord John Russell's (sometimes called the last Whig Government); Derby-Disraeli's (the first Conserva tive); and Aberdeen's (the first Liberal). The electorate numbered 1,167 ...

... political parties, by wishful thinking, hail them hopefully in their rivals' ranks, and splits have been common form among Whigs and Liberals since 1800 and not unknown among Tories. It was in 1836 that Creevey suggested to Melbourne that his party was ...

... light when the first supplement was issued. He was an obscure political hack in Hansard, a name, without substance in a few Whig memoirs. Had his papers been published in 1883 instead of in 1903, how many times would they have been cited among authorities ...

... making it a great meeting-place of the Whigs and that curious phenomenon, a salon those skilled in the evocation of shadowy figures in inaccurate period costume may safely imagine in the house and park all the great Whig sympathisers of the day, the wits and ...

... town the Cathedral, above all, and St. Ann's Church, the exuberant poetry of the Middle Ages and the well-bred prose of the Whig era quaint fragments like the Old Wellington Inn (renamed surely long after its birth) which Mr. Muncaster has drawn for these ...