... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... mattered to the Father of Fleet Street. Far more interesting to this department is the warmth with which Defoe, a dissenting Whig, extols in Crusoe's name the courteous and honourable business-dealings of the Portuguese, at a period when the Latin nations ...

... 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 ...

... Busy, M.P., to set all Democracy aflame. Flogging often to death in the Army, a chap was telling us, was introduced by the Whigs after the Glorious Revolution (1688) and finally abolished, despite the nervous doubts of Queen Victoria, by the Army Act of ...

... points out that in the eighteenth century many taverners put up the punchbowl as their sign when they wished to attract Whig customers, as this drink was particularly favoured by them. There are still many inns showing the Punchbowl as part of their ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... gathered, a last- moment plot hatched by the more desperate Fellows, and closely resembling the bogus Warming-Pan Plot which the Whigs invented to destroy the Stuart Succession some 300 years ago. A stuffed baby hippopotamus acquired from the Toy Department ...

... 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 ...