... was no pretence of any uniformity or unanimity, which everybody knew in his own heart to be perfectly impossible. The Whig was a Whig and the Radical was a Radical, and the Liberal (whatever that might be) was a Liberal-one as good as the other; forming ...

... with the Whig ark, the absolute tenure of land, that he was deserted, but when he drew back his hand, when he became quiescent, when he showed, vialgr Zzli a disposition to govern in ?? way. 1But he was not a Whig, and the people wanted a Whig, says the ...

... s which the Whig party have already made. And the Radicals should reflect that if it comes to a trial of strength between themselves and the Whigs the issue is not absolutely certain. Any such design as Mr. Richard attributes to the Whigs-the deposition ...

... just as merrily without it. There was no sacrifice of principle on either side. The Whig made no show of deference to the Tory views of government, nor the Tory to the Whig.- Pulteney knew well enough that in availing himself of his Tory allies he was in ...

... Tory Government. Marlborough and Godolphin were fast friends. They were in principle neither Whigs nor Tories; that is to say, they neither sympathized with the Whig oligarchy nor yet with the party of divine right and ecclesiastical intolerance. Their object ...

... was pre-eminently a Whig Administration. In spite of the matters of common notoriety at which the Times darkly hints, has its character been changed since the Disturbance Bill was introduced? Lord Hartington is surely as sound a Whig as Lord Lansdowne. ...

... of it. What she Whig malcontents have taken by their motion, no mortal can tell. They have forced upon the Government a power which Ministers do not wvant and which they are not likely to use. But it was neces- -ary to relieve Whig consciences, or, in ...

... as the political world was then for the most part either Whig or Tory. Reform, however, turned Tories into Conservatives, and created a great Liberal party, nominally in harmony with the Whigs, but nevertheless independent of them. Hence the Carlton arose ...

... accounts for everything. The centre of gravity of Liberal politics lies in the Whig patty. The secret of Liberal success is found in the steady unwavering pursuit of Whig principles. Why did Lord Palmerston remain at the head of a Govern. ,went longer ...

... I fear, the malevolence. of his Liberalism towards my country. The destruction of tile Whigs has been as complete as that of the Prophets of Baal, and the Whigs, lile the Baalite seers, assisted at their owvn destruction. While proclaiming in certain ...

... is right only by means of and through his antagonist; for if the Tory were not, then the Whig would be in the wrong, and so of the Tory m, the absence of the Whig. Taken jointly they make up the total truth. Even more epigrammatically, according to the ...

... 1714 the Tories were taught by adversity to act on Whig principles, to oppose the Royal power, &c. No such thing. Whig and Tory princi- ples still continued diametrically opposed to each other. The Whig denied, the Tory upheld, what it is now the fashion ...