... many books and pamphlets on the lestions of the day, which won the favour of industrial- s and were filed for reference by the Whig Govern- t. His reward came with a grant of 200,000 acres land in North Carolina when he was forty-three, and the age of sixty-six ...

... engaged in an association with Mrs. Norton, turning more positively to politics and becoming the gravitational centre of the Whig Party, with all its assorted collection of eighteenth-century Bourbons and earnest nineteenth- century reformers. Viewed from ...

... found it when I entered. A delightful book which takes us intimately into late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Whig society and of the days of Napoleon, Nelson, Wellington and the Prince Regent is Dorothy Margaret Stuart's Dearest Bess (Methuen ...