... many books and pamphlets on the lestions of the day, which won the favour of industrial- s and were filed for reference by the Whig Govern- t. His reward came with a grant of 200,000 acres land in North Carolina when he was forty-three, and the age of sixty-six ...

... Napoleon away from Madrid and got more criticism than encouragement from home. John Moore, and his sailor brother, Graham, were Whigs in that circle which revolved round Dr. Curry of Liverpool (Burns' first editor) and included Romilly, Creevey and his friend ...

... relies too much on Piickler- Muskau, that Prince of half-truths; perhaps he concentrates too much on Emily Eden's range of Whig country houses. And, to redress the balance, he might have relied a good deal more on J. L. Hammond. But he has stuck to a ...

... reviewer would prefer to congratulate Mr. Sackville-West on his solu tion of the problem of what a bedside book should be. A WHIG STATESMAN FALLS FROM HIS PINNACLE Mr. Roger Hedley, a New castle sculptor, putting the finishing touches to his new head for ...

... with a true instinct, felt that George III. through his servile parlia ment was attempting to recover from the Whigs the power the Whigs had wrested from the Stuarts, and to govern as well as reign as Bolinbroke's Patriotic King. Wilkes that devil, ...

... Melbourne and Queen Victoria's most respected adviser. In his youth he spent his time in brilliant and cultured company, but it was Whig company, and not renowned either for depth of feeling or soberness of opinion. His life was that of any young man of fashion: ...

... the sally has more point if it is remembered that at the time history lay under the pall of the tendentious miasma of the Whig historians. But Disraeli was right in the instance under review. What ever brand of historical scholar sets out to interpret ...

... vices were equally in the grand manner, and poetry sold better than the most sensational fiction. That was the great time of Whig power, when Fox declared that he hated war, when Sheridan proclaimed the right of America to self-determina tion, when Grey ...

... were very few. The worst of them was the Whig, Charles Fox, who had rejoiced over every disaster of his country during the war against America. A good deal of wild nonsense was also written in some of the Whig newspapers. A correspondent, who has forgotten ...

... marriage until Mary's death, and it seemed to at least one reader to have been written with a strong Whig bias, though with a frank admission of the Whigs' inadequacy. The aim of the royal pair is shown to have been the estab lishment of a lasting European ...

... others see us. The curse of Macaulay does not sit quite so heavily upon us these days. The politically prejudiced old Victorian Whig, for all his genius with the pen, could seldom bring himself to write history objectively but now in this twentieth century ...

... brought forth his learning in graceful style, but his judgments were calmer and loftier than those of the grand but prejudiced Whig. This Olympian aspect of his character is brought out very clearly in A VICTORIAN HISTORIAN PRIVATE LETTERS OF W. E. H. LECKY ...