... wealth. Few lawyers in the United States have been so successful in all varieties of practice, lie thes a member of the old Whig party, but when it was dissolved and the larger portion of it became the present Republican party, Mr. Johnson being a Southerner ...

... the chosen representative of Whig principles, and one to whom the traditions of the elders must have descended in their full integrity. No man in the whole world probably is so well qualified in these respects to write a Whig view of Mr. Fox's career -which ...

... had been still further stimulated in lursuit of political changes by the dethronement of Charles X. By all these events the Whigs profited in proportion. Theyhad, as was suppoted, once more a king upon the throne not averse to the policy of Reform; the ...

... Thomas Danvers, a brave, drinking, hunting, duelling, King's right, D.i grzit man, and his wife Penelope, a stanch Puritanical Whig lady, who feasted, in the absence of her husband from home, Monmouth on his short road to the block, and always fasted on the ...

... neighbours, and I fear we should have all fallen greatly in Mr. Mill's estimation if he had overheard their remarks. The words Whig, Tory, Radical, Liberal, Conservative, and Opposition were mentioned by my companions with great glibness and considerable ...

... influence on our recent history or present condition. In truth, the lecturer appears to hate it rather as an invention of the Whigs (whom he detests, though be thinks Providence has made them, for some inscru table purposes, a little less stupid than the ...

... Of the political movements of the last century we have a clear and forcible exposition, showing how the-- assumption of the Whigs of the Revolution that the destiny of the Country was to be governed by a select number of patrician families was followed ...

... tergiversatio115 how he began as a Jacobin, turned Antijacobin, accepted place from the Tories, then got into Parliament as a Whig, and ended his days as a kind of comprehensive, eclectic philosopher-all this was well known in its day, and is pretty nearly ...

... first had the misfortune to differ with his friends, and embarked on the vexed sea of politics in his pamphlet attacking the Whig sympathy with the Turks. What the event was which corresponded to the shipwreck wherein all the men perished but himself ...

... suggested within the succeeding hundred years. Finally it was tried in the Corn- prehension scheme of x689, which our best Whig historians, Barnet, Hallam, and Macaulay, are agreed in considering as happily frustrated. Certainly, had it succeeded, it ...

... Near Craywich also resided the Langhornes, a family once of some consequence, but now in rapid decadence, and as bitterly Whig in principle as the Aldersons were Tory to the core. George Langhorne was a clever, ambitious lad of nineteen, noticeable in ...

... coalition was for a long time possible between the Whigs and the Canningites ; and when these reasons had almost disappeared the only medium of communication with the Oppo- sition leaders was no longer in the Whig camp. Lord Grenville had retired from public ...