... the Whig attitude. It is opposed to Toryism and to Radicalism alike. It flatters the English love of middle ways, and cheers the English pride of common-sense. There are Whigs of science, and Whigs of philosophy, and Whigs of painting, and ...

... influences of the Whig form of Liberalism, which was hereditary in his family. His father, of whom he was the third son, became sixth Duke of Bedford soon after Lord John's birth, and was one of the little band of aristocratic Whigs whom the French Revolution ...

... election, an effort was made by the Whig part of the Corporation to choose a Liberal member, none having been returned since Winstanley in 1741. Although the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Stamford, and the county Whig families were powerful allies in the ...

... of two generations. When the Edinburgh was a political power in the land, Mr. Reeve was the exponent of the policy of the Whigs, and what appeared in the pages of the Revieiv was regarded as inspired by the chiefs of the party. He was an old contributor ...

... daughter visited him there, and later it was bought by Charles Fox, father of Charles James Fox, and became the rallying-point of Whig Society. Wanton ruin and destruction Most of the chief treasures of Holland House were removed before the war, but a number ...

... William Senior, Editor of the Field; Mr. W. J Fisher, Editor of the Daily Chronicle and Mr. J It. Fisher, Editor of the Northern Whig had good cause to be grateful to the Chairman for his just appreciation of their services to journalism and their fitness for ...

... than in the annals of Whig society, the most decorative, and from some points of view, the most civilised community that England has seen And where, the reader may ask, after finishing Lord David's chapter on the beau monde, could Whig society have found ...

... particular it is pointed out that among the pieces reprinted as Lamb's are A True Story, by Leigh Hunt, and Samuel Johnson the Whig, which will be found in Coleridge's Table Talk. The i letter on Shakespeare's characters is, in fact, No. 38 of the Round ...

... deigns to mention that he was Recorder of Poole, and that, changing his opinions as readily as the Vicar of Bray, he became a Whig. This brought him into the society of the Prince Regent, who was greatly charmed by the exquisite beauty of Mrs. Taylor. When ...

... most perfect Tory of the lot. Reynolds, the letter goes on, of course was Tory, but I 'm not sure that Gainsborough wasn't a Whig. (This, of course, has nothing to do with their political opinions.) Raeburn was a good Tory. Sargent wasn't. I can't think ...

... , Kensington is more cosy than noble, with pockets of mewses and green squares the wreck of Holland House, the home of the Whig oligarchy of the eighteenth century, survives as a reproach to air -power and democracy: among the cluttered or secluded streets ...

... Collectivist regime. The Whigs must be propitiated at any rate, till the next election. Then, but we can wait to see about that. And, pending the dissolution, the Fabians may well say that the Tories would be better enemies than the Whigs are as friends. It ...