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... colonies, pointing to Sir W. Moleswortb, and asking what claim Sir George baa to the place. They forget Sir George Grey is a Whig. Specimens of this interesting palieontoogical genius are so rare now a days that we cannot wonder at Lord John's ianxiety ...

Literary Extracts

... frim obstiniate prejudices. Thtete were I Sol'aa questions onl which lie wocild not look, bitt through an false medium. A Whig was generally 1a dog a Pres- k bytert an, PIt unanithorised schismatic. Reformation W55 estecLM'd for the nuost part r ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... speaks thus of the difficulties Lord John has to contend with :- If Lord John goes too far In reform, he is checked bytho Whigs; if he does not go far enough, he is abused by the Radicals; if lie steers a medium course be is reproached for want of energy ...

A SONG FOR THE TIMES

... at obery ting; 13' Tille him praise de lords and peOrs, Slwetla m s yellideco lstrdhips ears; Snolet?aimptory, sometimes him whig, Murehimes for neider he onae a fig. o jnes1 doe pnper etamp; stomp de pap?r, stamp, staieP .0 t alt nigtht, till do broad ...

Literature

... house with feet as big as a , ayg, bat,,d legs as large as portmanteaus. I stayed iarl sitleffrey. Mfy time was spent with the whig leaders of mite Sochbr,~ .set of very honest, clever men, each pos. ~es~i ?? sorts of wine. MY old friends weegldt sene; some ...

THE OLD COURT SUBURG.*

... accorditgly, ,wihh somewhat of an excess on the side of universality, were .to be seen poet and prose writers, both tory and whig, distin- ,guished jotuualists, E~dinbtrgh a-ad quarterly revievers, with tactors, artists, travellers, exiles, Ac. Thomas Moore ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... he owed notbivig, and from whiqh he hoped nothing. Of the trial no detailed report has come down to us; bat we have both a Whig narrative and a Jacobite narrative. It seems that the prisoners who were first arraigned did not sever in their challenges ...

Literature

... raising himself ina bed on his con- elbow, and givingafeebleche3er,-tbheoccasion being! many the coming into power of the whigs in I 830--and1 ye,,, 'the scene the death-bed of the individual, Ititchie, at the timoeconnected with the Srotsinaco. Men like ...

Literature

... thee day, and, like Mr. OCaspiug, you answer 1Yeas; on which ECc ~ht he begins to repeat to you, in short-tongute, all the Whig di '0speechies that had already iespired you with pity and disgust, ng commenting npon them like a cuckoo, and assuring you ...

Picking from Punch

... question to move the world; et ours then he the 'causetu that Shall move ?? of Mr. eywWorth, M.P., at ditto. Away with the Whigs and the Tou19s, The Peeites and Radicals too; - Th Beabblesare wretched old stories, With whin we e'yve nothing to do. All ...

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION EXHIBITION

... Burke, and Sheridan were sometimes his guests, p bunt whet had hreto in common with their host of Carlton dir House? 'fite whig chiefs thought to make use of him, en but lie Iad no feeling to unite him to them or to any others th wlro tork part in ?? ...

Literature

... distress. Poor people!: It is very painful to' ; -those who, like my ?? and myself, have long fore-' 'sesen the results of' whig and tory policy, to find now what we' feared comle to a head: however, the crown and, constitution ;are not to be overset breoaue ...