... that the late leader of the Welsh Nationalists was, while at Oxford, a member, not of the Radical Club the Russell but of the Whig institution of that nature the Palmerston. This is explicable only on the assumption that, though young Ellis at this stage ...

... 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 ...

... brilliant, profoundly interesting, he was yet almost incapable of even copying correctly from his authorities. Macaulay was a Whig to his sturdy hack- bone, and the Tories had but a poor time with him. Even Freeman stands charged with obstructing the ground ...

... business of John Almon, a publisher, whose shop opposite the Burlington Arcade was, in those days, a frequent resort of the Whig Party. Almon used to publish Collins' Peerage of England,' as well as Peerages of Scotland and Ireland. Debrett continued to ...

... marched them to the King. All bruised and bandaged then they went The 'Possum's noble tail was bent The Goose had sprained a whig. And when, with many a grievous moan, They stood before the Dumpling's throne, They were a sorry sight And when the Dumpling ...

... n has given men of all parties one subject on which they are thoroughly agreed, and all shades of politicians-- High Tory, Whig, Conservative, Liberal-Unionist, Liberal, Imperial Liberal, Fourth Party, and Radical-- have joined in welcoming home the man ...

... Coke in his youth was the lover, or at least the emphatic admirer, of the wife of Charles Edward, inaccurately known in our Whig-written histories as the Young Pretender. That must indeed have been an odd reflection for Lord Leicester, that his own father ...

... uncomfortable a capital from a social point of view. We may _ be quite certain the great ladies of our feudal aristocracy, whether Whig or Tory, will not take such an alarming accession of nobodies to their charmed circle without protest, and that there will ...

... get about London with extraordinary celerity, by omnibus and electric railway. That excessively wealthy leer and last of the Whigs, the late Duke of Devonshire, was in the habit of going about town in the underground railway or slow horse omnibus, and I ...

... even in the highest circles money is synonymous with power. The memoirs of a hundred years ago show us that even advanced Whigs never questioned (in deed, they insisted on) their right to govern the rest of the inhabitants of these islands. The middle ...

... our contemporaries. Even history is often written under like conditions, and the^ dictum that Macaulay's famous historv was a Whig pamphlet is not without justification. Th PH f' At the luncheon and dinner tables of the hour, 6 PlatSan S Y°u d° n°t talk ...

... Chatham whom she closely resembled in her old age were both singularly representative of that great Ruling Class, whether Tory or Whig, which seems to be dying out in England. The letters of Lady Hester who, after being the spoiled beauty and wit of William ...