... the Whig attitude. It is opposed to Toryism and to Radicalism alike. It flatters the English love of middle ways, and cheers the English pride of common-sense. There are Whigs of science, and Whigs of philosophy, and Whigs of painting, and ...

... influences of the Whig form of Liberalism, which was hereditary in his family. His father, of whom he was the third son, became sixth Duke of Bedford soon after Lord John's birth, and was one of the little band of aristocratic Whigs whom the French Revolution ...

... election, an effort was made by the Whig part of the Corporation to choose a Liberal member, none having been returned since Winstanley in 1741. Although the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Stamford, and the county Whig families were powerful allies in the ...

... of two generations. When the Edinburgh was a political power in the land, Mr. Reeve was the exponent of the policy of the Whigs, and what appeared in the pages of the Revieiv was regarded as inspired by the chiefs of the party. He was an old contributor ...

... deigns to mention that he was Recorder of Poole, and that, changing his opinions as readily as the Vicar of Bray, he became a Whig. This brought him into the society of the Prince Regent, who was greatly charmed by the exquisite beauty of Mrs. Taylor. When ...

... Collectivist regime. The Whigs must be propitiated at any rate, till the next election. Then, but we can wait to see about that. And, pending the dissolution, the Fabians may well say that the Tories would be better enemies than the Whigs are as friends. It ...

... American cloth and there you are It is worth mentioning, in connection with this chair, that it was owing to the fact that the Whigs had not got a candidate with sufficient experience to take the Chair, that Manners-Sutton, who was a strong- Tory, was re-elected ...

... opera in England was started by Sir John Vanbrugh, the foundation-stone of which, named the Little Whig, in honour of Lady Sun derland, the most celebrated Whig toast and beauty of her day, was laid in 1 704 The first opera was The Triumph of Love and it ...

... marched them to the King. All bruised and bandaged then they went The 'Possum's noble tail was bent The Goose had sprained a whig. And when, with many a grievous moan, They stood before the Dumpling's throne, They were a sorry sight And when the Dumpling ...

... by showing that, so tar from being a political trimmer and renegade, lie was absolutely consistent in his devotion to the Whig Revolution and the Tory Church. He never intrigued with the Jacobites, but he would stand no measures which threatened the ...

... that the late leader of the Welsh Nationalists was, while at Oxford, a member, not of the Radical Club the Russell but of the Whig institution of that nature the Palmerston. This is explicable only on the assumption that, though young Ellis at this stage ...

... The Parliament itself is generally broken up into a number of big and little knots, with strange names and stranger objects. Whig and Tory most people understand in history one cannot always tell them apart now. But what is the difference between a National ...