... fine ladies in cumbrous coaches and vexatious sedan chairs gentlemen with periwigs and swords, ladies with powder and patches Whig ladies and Tory ladies, distinguished by the disposition of little bits of court- plaster assisting at drums and routs, where ...

... his agent Veasey, where, in reply to the former's remark, that A Whig is the only safe man for a place, the latter says-- And the Walpoles of Houghton, in all their relations, Have been Whigs to the backbone for three generations. Walpole. Ay, my father ...

... distinct idea of the formation of this Ministry, if we were to suppose it formed of the three English parties, Conserva tives, Whigs, and Radicals, the late Ministers represent ing the first, the Right Centre the second, and the Left Centre the third, although ...

... unlike Miss Mitford. She loved Scott's poems Miss Mitford sneered at them. She was a zealous Jacobite; and Miss Mitford was a Whig. The latter hated Crabbe the former worshipped him. These tastes, however, make no appearance in her novels. Indeed, such is ...

... for the sake of preserving the unity and indivisibility of their national life. W e quite agree with Mr. F roude, that the Whig panacea for colonial discontent namely, the formation of a number of self-governing communities has tended to lessen the h ...

... June 1832, he took an active part as a member of the Whig Opposition, and threatened to become a serious rival of Lord John Russell for the future leadership of the party. On the accession of the Whigs to office, in the month of November 1830, he was made ...

... being a Whig humbug for not resigning at an earlier hour of the day Sir Sydney is no more a Whig than Mr. Odger is a metaphy sician. He tells us that the old Whigs have declared war against working men as representatives. Where are the old Whigs Where ...

... manifest when Lord Annaly's son rises to second the motion for defeating Mr. Gladstone's measure. The Whites of Longford are Whigs pure and simple but on land legislation they hold extreme views, which approach as nearly to fixity of tenure as the hyperbola ...

... Liberals. The two United Services, the Travellers, the Wyndham, and the Army and Navy, are also, pro bably, much more Tory than Whig, but they do not come into my calculation of the Seven Thousand. Of the politics of the Tunior Athenaeum in Piccadilly I have ...

... Tory absentees. Whether he would take the same view of the matter if a Conservative Govern ment should ever have to threaten a Whig majority in the Lords with new creations, will, however, remain in the minds of some among his readers an open question. Coming ...

... the local bishops of England, or France or America. M. De Mon talembert was, ecclesiastically, an old- fashioned aristocratic Whig. The Ultra- montanes, whom he came to detest so cordially, are votaries of Cassarism in the Church. He wanted to retain the ...

... creating too highly paid parlia mentary offices with the other. It was a mode, he said, of getting two Government votes, and was a Whig job. Lord Elcho objected to making the same Minister responsible for the commissariat and the ordnance, a combination of duties ...