Excerpt from Wine on the Lees It is not to be assumed that beer alone sent Sir Vincent Twickham to the House of Lords. The tools to him who can handle them. The great brewer counted princes and premiers among his familiar friends. The scale of his entertainments was regal; and in the House of Commons, which he adorned for several years, he proved the most complaisant voter in an assembly of zealous puppets. He rarely made speeches; they were not in his line. He had no ambition to shine as a windbag; to tell the truth he heartily despised the species. It was his pride to serve - first the people, by giving them something to drink second his friends in Parliament, by voting as they wished. Political scruples he had none, and chatter about principles he left to faddists. Moreover, as the wire-pullers were well aware, he understood the delicate art of giving. N 0 man indeed ever gave with a nicer judgment or a shrewder eye to results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.