... 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 ...

... Napoleon away from Madrid and got more criticism than encouragement from home. John Moore, and his sailor brother, Graham, were Whigs in that circle which revolved round Dr. Curry of Liverpool (Burns' first editor) and included Romilly, Creevey and his friend ...

... relies too much on Piickler- Muskau, that Prince of half-truths; perhaps he concentrates too much on Emily Eden's range of Whig country houses. And, to redress the balance, he might have relied a good deal more on J. L. Hammond. But he has stuck to a ...

... 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 ...

... himself as a 100 per cent. American, is soon caught up into the close-km village life which his relations continue to lead. Whig he leaves he is a changed man and the reader follow his metamorphosis with something ery close to fascination. Mr. Morreale ...

... 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 ...