... 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 ...

... came from a strongly Tory family. Caroline Sheridan, granddaughter of the Irish poet was beautiful, brilliant and witty and a Whig by inheritance. Impulsive and tantalizing and of indifferent judgment but withal generous and for giving. The cause celebre ...

... Cecil was speaking most charmingly and eloquently about the writing of his book, Lord M., the life of Lord Melbourne that great Whig. Referring to an earlier book of his about the same figure, he mentioned that Sir Winston Churchill had complained of his ...

... 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 ...