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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... WITH THE UNDER-SEVENS Jennifer's LADY RUSSELL and Mrs. Francis Whig ham gave a delightful party at the Hyde Park Hotel for children under seven years old. This was to celebrate the birthdays of their two little daughters, Clare Russell, who looked sweet ...
... hope all this doesn't bore you Our aim is to combine beauty of style with that rigid factual exactitude so detestable to the Whigs. You un-English rat, said the girl with heaving bosom. Puff puff A magistrate assuring a youthful financier that picking pockets ...
... for Whigs exclusively. Most of these drank to excess. A drunk Whig is dominated even more than a sober Whig by devilish arrogance and rebellion. Around the dinner-table at Holland House any given night, therefore, we may see one or two sober Whigs like ...
... 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 ...
... Queen. No two men could have been more different. Sir Robert was a hard-drinking, sporting squire, well trusted by most of the Whigs, a man who had suffered already many reversals of political fortune, and was to suffer more. He combined a genius for control ...
... asked What was a Whig, Daddy I append a definition which I have found in a new book bv Mr. Algernon Cecil and only wish that someone would provide as amusing a one for defining the difference between a Democrat and a Republican. The Whigs were a peculiar ...