... served as the Headquarters of the Parliamentary Army, under General Fairfax. Perhaps the association of memory of this great Whig salon with our present MERCHANT VENTURERS OF THE F • . .4. • • , • ...

... On books and people Stracheys who served the British Empire with great distinction in India. Stracheys were Whig more often than Tory, and present-generation Stracheys have been more conspicuous on the left than the right. The Right Honourable John Strachey ...

... compromise rather like being an amateur conjuror). Our eighteenth - century religious fanatics have provided much jolly fun for the Whig historians. There was Joanna Southcott whose much-publicized box we are always being exhorted to open by the aptly-named Panacea ...

... was one of political principles, not of class against class. Out of the stately homes have been bred the Parliamentarians, Whigs and Liberals who have always adapted the constitution to the spirit of the times and to the demands of economic change. That ...

... originator of much of the so-called Vanbrugh style. The more famous of the two, being a man of fashion and friend of the great Whig families, was naturally in a better position than Hawksmoor to attract com- ...

... Now we are presented with the middle-aged widower who turns, in a very Whig way, almost grudgingly, to politics, and becomes Prime Minister as it were by accident. Again, in a Whig way, having reached the supreme office he stays there longer than anyone ...

... allied with a genuine attempt to present a personality emerging from a class. Melbourne has all the abundant arrogance of the Whig aristocrat with the hatred of change but with a willingness to allow moderate change sooner than have disorder. It was ironical ...

... other. But the entertainment that day was worth the money. Mr Butler exercised a fluently waggish tongue at the expense of Whigs and did not allow the food to pass unremarked. Lord David was in his best revue form. It is very superficial of me, I know ...

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... Hartmann. (Heinemann. 21s) BETWEEN the wars there grew up in this country a school of Tory historians writing rebuttals of the Whig interpretation of English history which had been current (and almost official) until then. The seventeenth century when the ...