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ART NOTES

... Academy at allh The man in Cavendish- square, as Reynolds styled him, and who painted Tory ladies as Sir Joshua painted Whig ladies, declined the honour of member- ship of the R.A. About this time Romney, who had left his wife and family to fare scantily ...

GREAT ECCLESTON AGRICULTURAL SHOW

... hatter Itime than the present for farmelrs to ask relief from the 3dangers which threatened them. Whether atatesneen .were Whigs or Tories, they were equally bound to find some way to meet the difficulty presenting itself, and undaly weighing down the ...

MAGAZINES FOR FEBRUARY

... Edward It Russell,of thiscity. .The Irish people says Mr. M'Carthy, according to the interpretation of the Castle, are the Whig and Tory justices of the peace, the place-men whom the Lord-Lieutenant sooner or later rewards with situations, the Castle ...

LITERARY SELECTIONS

... immediate return of the money. Can't be done, your lordship, said thecabinsa, grinning. Can't! why not? rejoined the immortal Whig. Why, my lord, I thought a great nobleman like vou of course meant to give me the money as compensation for the honour of ...

THE FAIR-TRADE LEAGUE

... friends were not in favour of the movement, and took considerable exception to it; while, on the other hand, ha could name Whig-peers who took an interest in then, and he must not forget to add that the Premier of the i present Government was in favour ...

PARTY

... even after the Whigs have bolted, government by the best men , is not an abs~olute impossibility. From evil spirits and from metaphors, groaned Paul Louis, good Lord, deliver uts With those evil spirits of the Liberal party, the Whigs, it is a favourite ...

MR. GLADSTONE

... published in a few days as an Election w National Antheoif: t( Shall brave old Gladstone die, For daring to defy a The great Whig clanI t] First on the roll of fame, t] Foremost in patriot aim, He bears this doathless name- J The Grand Old Mian. ci Of ...

ART NOTES

... one that exercised J considerable influence over English literature, v was the Kit Cat,founded in 1688 by the p leading Whigs of the day, and held in Shire- l lane, at the house of a pastry cook named Christopher- Cat. SAmong the members were Addison ...

LITERARY NOTES

... General and Solctor. jal lre Irish Tories, the 3 a~corGnr1 of Conatabllary > Wli hl a~t y a~ry, the b ofdthe Dnhhn pole is a Whig, the ceasader of he forces is a German, the ?? (;ve Bord is made up of three English Tory Pro- testants and one Irlsh Tory ...

LITERARY SELECTIONS

... Charles II., that the election struggles began, based on the party divisions of the Court aiid cotnuty party, the Tories and Whigs, Cotnervativos and Radicals, which StiU continue. Froin that day to this every election has resounded wibh similar cries, and ...

LECTURE BY FATHER BILLINGTON

... largely indulgent. We had, too, the Lord Chambermain, who was supposed to be a moral aud uprightofflaial, but who muat be a. Whig or a Tory. The idea of the index then was not a novel one in this country. The whole idea of the index was that the Charch ...

CHARLES KIRKPATRICK SHARPE, THE SCOTTISH HORACE WALPOLE

... Wyvth, Certainly, numberless poetical beauties. Mil- ton was a Whig, and, in my mind, an Atheist. I am persuaded his poem was composed to apologiss for the devil, who cer- tainly was the first Whig on record. He entered at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1798, ...