... the Revolution of 1688 —the Glorious Revolution of the Whig history books against the excesses of fanaticism and party feeling that had brought so many heads to the block and so many to misery and ruin during that century of strife. The essence of the ...

... in his 1795 war budget, taxed hair-powder on a personal basis of a guinea a head, he caused a revolution in fashion; the Whigs, his political opponents, took to wearing their hair short, a la guillotine, as they put it, while oldfashioned Tories who ...

... set up his own establishment on his coming of age in 1783, he identified himself with the francophile whigs like Fox and Burke, and employed the whig and francophile architect, Henry Holland, on the construction of Carlton House. Because to many English ...

... Derby said at the time Don't you see that we have dished the Whigs?”, probably with some memory of Disraeli's own remark of Peel and the 1837 Reform Bill—” The Rt Hon. gentleman caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes.” At the time of ...

... of putting an additional tax on dogs of all kinds and a still greater one on greyhounds. I am no partisan, but I will be a Whig or a J acobin or anything now to oppose those stupid, tasteless ninny-hammers, with Nicholas Vansittart —one of Mr Callaghan’s ...

... sort, for the heritage from the 18th century was deplorable. All religious zeal was sternly discouraged in the days of the Whigs, and none but safe men were appointed to positions of authority, so it was small wonder that many Englishmen followed the advice ...

... There are too many sweeping generalities. Pitt, to whom the author is consistently unfair, was not a cheese-paring Tory,” but a Whig who had to exercise the utmost economy to husband the nation’s finances after the disasters of the War of Axnerican Independence ...

... Gladstone was like a red rag to a bull to Beatrix— what a vain old bird he is —though she is careful to explain that she is a Whig not a Tory; all the same when an election came along she was found on the side of the Tories as anything is better than the ...

... frightened as their Continental neighbours: they were, however, terrified of encirclement by Spain in the 16th century, and the Whig oligarchy was ...

... which remembers the episode of Hindenburg's will may well be sceptical of the official story, for the Regents, most of them Whigs, were in much the same position as Hitler, and they were at least as unscrupulous. Spence goes even further, declaring that ...

... ass or no, he was given the job, over a series of years, of painting the members of the Kit Cat Club, all supporters of the Whig establishment. The members met at first in a pub near Temple Bar kept by Christopher Cat, whose mutton pies, known as kit-cats ...

... statesmen, the Earl of Derby, at that time the rather reluctant leader of the Conservative party, and Lord Clarendon, who was a Whig. The request,” the latter wrote to the duchess, ” came in a form so urgent from the Queen that it was impossible to decline ...