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... to make a cotsqueet, really wanted to be sustained. ehanci hasods She became the confidante of his metancholywhich she tried whig seerve to brighten into manly cheerfulness. It was a time when honest what society presented strange contrasts. An excessive ...

MR. CHARLES DICKENS AND THE EDINBURGH REVIEW

... (being always frtedestruction of every ,d thing) made it one of the conditions of their rendering their ~d support to the new Whig Government that the Penny. dI postage system should -be adopted. This was two years aol I. after the appointment of the committee; ...

ART TREASURES EXHIBITION

... (Cheers.) Mr. Bright Wes a& thoroughgoing, hearty Sydni .e radical. He' congratulated them onl the support which some Wilbs 0 whigs. were going to give 'Mr. Bright. Whuggiry was dead, of At Ran they were now nery Ugg~ to npport Mr. Bright. City One reason ...

ART TREASURES EXHIBITION

... estates cie of ?? York, the deceased peer was veraj possessed hf extensive property in Ireland. The hereditary advocate of'whig politics, lila lordship gave aconsistent suppeda New to all liberal measores, aud assisted by his influence the aitm- sef055 ...

ST. PATRICK'S DAY

... had been a pleasant one aci indeed. He did not knowwhetler to call it a traitor chair, because in its embrace it had clutched Whig and Tory, Catholic and Protestant, and men of every b1r shade and creed. That old chair had to undergo a hit great numberof ...

ST. PATRICK'S DAY

... have been levelled; thus exterminating, liv banishing, and perhap . lig, three-ftiturths of the labonring classes o- Ireland. Whig and Tory Governments axe all the a i same to the poor Irish; or, as an Irlebman once said. com- co- Paring the persecution ...

THE LOVE KNOT

... of; the; day 'after its publcatio qite seneogh for ,any -good -news, -it had' to t1 hi _egides,- there.were the country aes Whig'and' Toy leas ha.but'sid'did rlot think, mutech of them, fbr we knilw teci t6'sj,iuid distrusted theWhii' arul Uns heoamese ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... Insurgenin teo mercifully. AnidLauderdaletold Charles, with anoatb, tbat the duke had been so civil to the Whigs because he was himself a Whig In his heart. This made 'it a, court word; and, in a little while, all the friends and followers of the duke ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... spirit ran to a height which the better sense of the present day would not tolerate, and can scarcely realise. In many towns, a Whig would not sit down to the same table with a Tory, and their wives and families would not show euam- mon civility to each other ...

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... Locke King's Tenpotadeir, neither of whom, of course, can have a chance of winning on their own. merits. Russell's Woburn Whig must have a good'ahance for this, race. ?? has performed ver well at different times - and, although rather off lately, we ...

Pickings from Punch

... majority got: His Reform Bill brought on, His majority's gone- Whiggery, trickery, hot. 2. Rupert and Ben took up the pen, 01 Whig Reforms to aughter: Rupert fell down, From serving the Crown, And Ben came tumbling arter. Henley and Walpole ware two pretty ...

Pickings from Panch

... infinitelyy less ! ELECTION SONG. B a Free and Indepenident. I've a vote ! I ye a vote ! . for no matter which side, To neither Whig, Tory, nor Rad am I tied: Up, up with the hustings !-'tis a gold mine to me; I've a vote ! I've a vote ! independent and free ...