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... affair in which Bute was abott this time employed by the Kin , was in forwarding a negotiation with Pitt, whom (oe of the great Whig chiefs, the Duke of Bedford, had persuaded the King to invite to take part in the Administration, and this negotiation sgeems ...

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... with the singing of Mlrs. Bill ingten, and ?? have listened, she said, for days to her heavenly voice. Sir Samuel Hood uas a Whig. During the short administration of 411 the Talents, he contested the representation of Westminster, aid, after a desperate ...

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... who- ever writes it will have to deal with the'n.3' Mr Gregory's public life camne to an end in 1831 on the accession of the Whigs to power. Ho was a staunch Conservative, and had always been opposed to Catholic emancipa- tion, so that his dismissal by Lord ...

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... adopted bly the etCher. a RyAh means let villains like the Vandeleur, of the story have such justicee mted oat to them as may whig the misoblef out of them, ' reduce the numbers of their- eases, and protect a their intended victims4 But thiis precisely t ...

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... rAaLxResrTOc. le( W11hen Lorri Palmerston was asked, in 1859, L a0i t i reference to a meditated commentary on the a a New Whig Guide, what share he had in it, he de replied :-I certainly did join in quizzing the he Vhigs i a that time, but we have ...

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... Prime riniater at the time of the Reform. Bill, which mn have stirred lip his son's defence. The first of charge was that the Whig Prime Minister .wao w dreadfully frightened about the creation of new Fr peers in number sufficient to swamp the actual er ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... was against the college statutes, and while the authorities feared the King, they feared God Almighty still more. A great Whig centre at the time of the Revolution, it had then on the foundation Creech, the translator of Lucretius. Dryden complimented ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... rather flattering, which, of course, is natural senough, seeing that the Lady Elizabeth and her - relatives were all on the Whig side. 12 He spoke a good deal about SirJoseph Banks, who, he said, was uuch esteemed in this country. . . . He is under the ...

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... of the Covenant and tiebellion lent a con- e sistent and substantial support to the cause of E religious and civil liberty. Whig by conviction no less than by tradition, several sons of Kil- t marnock occupy an honourable place in the roll t of Covenant ...

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... career of Scroggs they appeared as if sick from the blood of Papists, and even felt inclined to select victims from among the r Whigs as some atonement for their own culpable ' credulity. What the novelist has indicated rather than described as influencing ...

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... profctesions ana promises of Eaglish Liberals. Lateron he ?? people,nntaught by experience, again placed their faith in the Whig party, and again found that they relied on a rotten reed. Similar remarks abound in the book, and the inference is that the ...

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... never called to the bar, except ins an honorary a way after he became Prime Mlinister. When he I, left college Canning was a whig of the school ;of Fox and of Sheridan, and Sir Walter Scott 1,Itells a curious story of ?? sudden political con- 1- ;VekSfiQ1 ...