... with a rod of iron, and leading Whigs, chiefly of the male sex, used her house as an hotel, and endured the landlady's tyranny. Creevey himself wrote thousands of words about her and her guests. and all the leading Whigs and wits frequented her company ...

... animal that old William Cobbett made his Rural Rides through the counties of England, pen in hand, fulminating against the Whigs and their Corn Laws. The cob was not yet quite a gentleman; though now a riding horse, he was still collar-marked. But he was ...

... failure of an individual Minister, however little due to his own incapacity, has usually resulted in his resignation. When the Whigs remained tor over twenty years in the Wilderness before the Reform Bill, it was their disunity which kept them there, and the ...