... March 29, 1799, and began public life as a.Canningite, or Conservative Whig, and did not definitely join the Tories until he was thirty-five years of ave. But though nominally a Whig (for his family belonged to that party), his early speeches show in many ...

... comprises a very full and vivid picture of society in the mainly Quaker, partly military, city of Philadel1.hia and of its ' Whigs and ' Tories before and during the War of Independence: a striking portrait of Washington, and a brilliant account of his ...

... as we do that there have been Whigs and Tories, trider various aopellations, ever since the world began, and although we do not wish to imitate his acrimony by stating the name (according to Dr. Johnson) of the first Whig, we cannot admit that one party ...

... save honour ; the quaint Scottish gentlewoman of the older world ; the queer little cripple ; the Whig officer who is a good fellow, and the other Whig officer who is an unmitigated villain and poltroon; the trimming provost; the foolish and conceited ...

... King to Oxford sent a troop of horse. For Tortes own no argument but force, To Cambridge then a gift of books he sent, For Whigs admit no F orce but Argument. In conclusion Mr. Gladstone protested against universities bejn, turned into manufactories of ...

... unnecessary pain. We should have liked Whig Reviewers, as Painted by Them- selves, in B'lackwood better, but for a certain self-righteousness of tone that pervades the article. See, it seems to say, how these Whig-Radicals of the Edinbiaghz hated each ...

... been published, was a man of sound and shrewd commonsense, and was, by virtue of his- position as head of one of the great Whig families, always thoioughly in touch with politics and society. He was a type of his class, and offered ii his own person a ...

... now to what they were when Dr. Johnson evolved the Parliamentary debates of his day out of his own head, taking care that the Whig class did not get the best of it. In those days members were not quite sure that it was not a high crime and a misdemeanor ...

... the policy of carping and cavilling, depreciation of English successes, and prophecies of English failures, pursued by the Whig Opposition under Lords Grey and Holland, and Tierney, Romilly, and Brougham, throughout the Peninsular War. The sketch, we ...

... real and fictitious, belong to the period of the story -the reign of William the Third-in something more than in name. His Whigs and Jacobites are men of the time, with all the prejudicec, political and social, of that troubled period, and lastly his dialogue ...

... Revolution remained without reasonable suspicion. Mr. Weyman's plot turns upon a supposed intrigue to entangle the trusted Whig minister with the Jacobite party by employing a wretched creature, who tells the story, and bears sufficient resemblance to ...

... thirty and odd years of English history, present a careful, and in some respects, perhaps, a slightly novel portrait of the Whig Premier of Queen Victoria's earlier years, from the pen of one who knew and loved him well. The chief who led so long the proudest ...