... Bagge of Slate Composed Almost Entirely of Coale. Thousands of leaflets under such cum brous, if explanatory names, against Whigs or Dissenters, against Tories and Highflyers, were issued from the zealous pens of scribblers two centuries ago, and it is ...

... laughter- maker in his own age, and so notable a figure in society, or at any rate, the society of Holland House, where the Whigs were gathered together. For his fun and ridicule were rhetorical and cumu lative, stroke following- stroke to a pinnacle of ...

... 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 ...

... further with a tastefully engraved skull and crossbones to remind the rich that they are not (as they think) immortal. The Whigs stopped all this nonsense in 1688, unless we err. As for sundials, nervous and wealthy but important chaps even today are often ...

... whom we praise firmly on all possible occasions namely poor dear little Lucrezia Borgia, a blonde so foully slandered by the Whig chorus for nearly 450 years that even to-day stock brokers deem her a trollop. Not so her subjects of Ferrara, who loved her ...

... is not trying to resuscitate the dis credited poet, but the friend and patron of genius, the cultivated eighteenth-century Whig and the eccentric character. He has written a long and very interesting book about this queer man, but I do not feel certain ...

... 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 ...