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... 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 prejudices, political and social, of that troubled- period, and lastly his ...
... two families in whom the interest centres and the contention between Roundheads and Cavaliers, Hanoverians and Jacobites, Whigs and Tories. There is the dis possessed heir in exile, returning at last to disappoint the loyal heart which placed its whole ...
... their ever getting into it. Mr. Gourlay thinks the Dissent and Radicalism of Wales due to the ecclesiastical policy of the Whigs in the eighteenth century. Mr. Matlock has an admirable article, full of his incisive sentences, on Conservatism and Socialism ...
... complicated campaigns of Marlborough, or Peterborough's eccentric flashes of genius at home the struggles for power between Whig and Tory in Parliament and country, the secret influences at work at the Court, the dominant figures of statesman, wits, and ...
... Hastings, naturally challenges comparison with Lord Macaulay's brilliant but one sided Essay, for it is safe to say that the Whig historian's estimate of the great Governor-General is the one work often read by the public. The occasion of Macaulay's onslaught ...
... forgotten. The volume devoted to Lord Beaconsfield is decidedly the most attractive, and we feel that Mr. Punch who, as a mild Whig, rarely altogether approves of his hero's doings, cannot nevertheless help sympathising with his indomitable pluck and fertility ...
... with the three concluding essays on Agricultural and Communal France, and on France in 1870. Mr. Reeve writes from the old Whig stand-point, and his views have naturally been disapproved by those who hold that France, in spite of revolutions and disaster ...
... Diana of Hatfield but, writes Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, with sour triumph he was what Dr. Johnson would have called a dog of a Whig An imperfect attempt was made on the hostile side to oppose this new species of warfare by similar captivation, and Lady Salisbury ...