... their freshness even today, and it is remarkable to note the modernity of the views held by Burnet—stalwart champion of Whig Protestantism—on such matters as eternal punishment. Of the remaining lives in this book, the most considerable is that by ...

... the Eighteenth Century, they were widely used under the perpetual threat of a Jacobite 'vival, a threat that lasted from the Whig Revolution 1689 until the middle of the next century. But, as a ;lass, informers were treated with loathing and contempt, and ...

... Earl of Shaftesbury, was the grandson of that Ashley—the second A in the Cabal—who played a prominent, if tortuous, part in Whig politics in the reign of Charles 11, and was rewarded with a peerage. The third Earl, who suffered from poor health throughout ...

... RESERVES AND SURPLUS CURRENT LIABILITIES AND 1950 ,__-- 4,124,196 7,195,587 11,319,783 Trade Aesounts and Sundry Rmylopes Whigs Assounts Sundry Provisions— Taxation—Estimated liability including 1961-52 Income Tax Assessment (Note 4) 5,585.950 ...

... and prosperity, with the King at last triumphant over his enemies and everyone satisfied, except the small bunch of disloyal Whigs, who suffered, as it seemed, final overthrow when the Rye House Plot was foiled. The fascination is the greater for the reason ...

... the Star Chamber appears as an instrument of terrible oppression. This view is derived, with some justification, from the Whig historians, Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, who are the fathers of most school textbooks on English history. In the histories of English ...

... out of the Traeth Bach, the estuary dividing Carnarvon from Merioneth. This early Nineteenth Century pioneer of r eclamation, Whig politician and ide alist, whose expensive enthusiasm devoured his fortune so that he died in penury, is restored to flesh and ...

... unionists. Why a trade unionist should not be politically what his inclination demands is not clear. Tory, Liberal, Radical, Whig, Socialist, Calathumpian, are surely all equally entitled to be trade unionists. In fact, the only persuasion whose adherents ...

... recover from the coin] is an interesting symptom of ti trade unionists. Why a trade u what his inclination deznandE Radical, Whig, Socialist, Calat entitled to be trade unionists, whose adherents would be unf Philosophic Anarchists'. But, to the sturdy ...

... servant to King William 111, whale memory he never ceased to honour, and, if in later years he veered eventually between the Whig and the Tory camps, he could plead—a plea which retains substance at the present day—that, by breaking faith with party, he ...

... formidable task. He has to buttress his hero against the backwash of the storms of abuse roared against Marlborough by the Whig historians. He has to pit against two centuries of vilifications, which, in some circles, are now accepted legends, a sparsity ...

... of the trial and execution of an Irish Archbishop, victim of the `popish plot' scare of 1678-81. In the struggle between the Whig opposition and the Crown a number of innocent men were drawn into the complex web of intrigue, and none met his fate more nobly ...