... 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. Reform was the ...

... ance her unrivalled persuasive powers lent to the victorious return of Charles James Fox, the great orator, statesman, and Whig chief, on the memorable electioneering contest at Westminster in 1784, the most famous struggle on record, and one that the ...

... now to what they were when Dr. Johnson evolved the Parliamentary debates of his day out of his own head, taking care that the Whig class did not get the best of it. In those days members were not quite sure that it was not a high crime and a misdemeanor ...

... Fox, and Sheridan. She cheered the orator's declining years, and to this fair paragon and reigning toast the poets of the Whig party consecrated their muse in all modesty That wishes which never were bounded before Are here bounded by Friendship, and ...

... Brocas. It then passed away from that family and became a post in the gift of the Sovereign. During 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 ...

... he published, a staunch and wittily trenchant ally of the Whig party and Lord Grenville, Fox's Ministerial colleague. These were but a few of the visitors who, in the latter days of the great Whig Chief, and in the earlier career of his beloved nephew, ...

... acrimonious not without reason. O'Connell had fl at that time just entered upon his notorious alliance with the Whigs in spite of the fact that the Whigs had heretofore I treated him as one almost out of the pale of civilisation, had denounced him as a traitor ...

... acrimonious-- not without reason. U Connell had at that time just entered upon his notorious alliance with the Whigs in spite of the fact that the Whigs had heretofore treated him as one almost out of the pale ot civilisation, had denounced him as a traitor ...

... not. Long before he died, in 1878, the old Whig creed which he personi fied was dead and forgotten. The Administration of 1868 was a long-lived one but before it was out of office the old leader of the Whig party had bitter reason to regret having surrendered ...

... the case with the Marquis of Lome and the Argyll family, may be said generally to act in politics with the great historical- Whig party. Whereas the last King of the male line of the House of Stuart who actually reigned in England, James II., had for his ...

... beginning of the century. When Pitt and Fox were alive there was one bench set apart in the House for the use of Privy Councillors. Whig or Tory, or what ever they might be, Privy Councillors sat on this one bench. The contiguity of members of opposing politics ...

... like a request that he would use his personal influence to make the Whigs obedient to their leader, and it was then that His Majesty said The Constitution makes me guard of the coach, Whig or Tory but you, Mel bourne, are coachman, and you want me to take ...