... shifting of opinions by which the staunch Whig of one generation found him- self stranded and left behind as a Tory by the next gene- ration. Once upon a time we called the advanced guard of politicians New Whigs, now we call them Radicals. EARL RUSSELL ...

... March 29, 1799, and began public life as a.Canningite, or Conservative Whig, and did not definitely join the Tories until he was thirty-five years of ave. But though nominally a Whig (for his family belonged to that party), his early speeches show in many ...

... the awgtsment, either by accilent or by motives of revenge, both the barrels of Pifys' gun- go off __I 4 There is a ?? of whigs-the Deeper s15ils and falls. Wilhout wailizng lo0 ik uzp a duck Pipys rueshes from Mhe scene in horror 5 He eanzo/t swear it ...

... of Com- mons as member for Winchelsea in 1826. Lord Howick, as be was then known, like his father, was a member of the old Whig party, then in a somewhat forlorn and hopeless condi- tion. He speedily distinguished himself as a bold, if not. a very brilliant ...

... a Whig humbug for not resigning at an earlier hour of the day ? Sir Sydney is no more a Whig than Mr. Odger is a metaphy. sician. He tells us that the old Whigs have declared war against workin, men as representatives. Where are the old Whigs? Where ...

... comprises a very full and vivid picture of society in the mainly Quaker, partly military, city of Philadel1.hia and of its ' Whigs and ' Tories before and during the War of Independence: a striking portrait of Washington, and a brilliant account of his ...

... as we do that there have been Whigs and Tories, trider various aopellations, ever since the world began, and although we do not wish to imitate his acrimony by stating the name (according to Dr. Johnson) of the first Whig, we cannot admit that one party ...

... save honour ; the quaint Scottish gentlewoman of the older world ; the queer little cripple ; the Whig officer who is a good fellow, and the other Whig officer who is an unmitigated villain and poltroon; the trimming provost; the foolish and conceited ...

... King to Oxford sent a troop of horse. For Tortes own no argument but force, To Cambridge then a gift of books he sent, For Whigs admit no F orce but Argument. In conclusion Mr. Gladstone protested against universities bejn, turned into manufactories of ...

... them; but he could remember when, as a Whig baby, he was taught to look on a Dissenter as being much in the same category as a murderer, and on a Dissenting chapel as a den of iniquity, to be quickly passed by. The Whig babies of a ?? generation had not these ...

... regarding each other with increas- ing coldness. The Whigs would unanimously support the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, whereas the Radicals consider that the proposal is a mere revival of despotism. The Whigs, while anxious to do justice to the Irish peasantry ...

... Brocas. It then passed away from that family and became 'a post in the gift of the Sovereign. Daring the ascendancy of the great Whig families, when there was a recasting and rearranging of offices, the post being one of profit under the Crown, was made dependent ...