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... 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 ...
... June i832, he took an active part as a member of the Whig Opposition, and threatened to become a serious rival of Lord John Russell for the future leadership of the party. On the accession of the Whigs to office, in the month of November I830, he was made ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... future to formal separation. In the first place, if the Whigs dissent to some extent from the Radicals, it does not follow that they agree in all essential respects with the Tories. The words Whig and Tory still represent a real difference not only of ...
... 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 ...
... (No. 42). The object of the meeting was to obtain a repeal of the obnoxious Sedition Bill, which, as the artist showvs, the Whig member George ,NG AT MAY31I NO. 45, THE LOYAL MEDAL: A PARODY OF THE PATRI- OTIC MEDAL STRUCK IN COMMEMORATION OF THE REFORM ...
... 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 ...