... historical accuracy or alleged one-sidedness- a charge which, by the way, came with extremely bad grace from the lips of the great Whig historian. Fluctuating between Whiggism and Toryism--the one com- mending itself to his intellect, the other to his chivalrous ...

... were the impending questions of foreign policy, was disgusted at the prevalence of party spirit which kept Peelites and s Whigs aloof from the Administration. His desire was that, whatever Government was in power, England should be united and strong; ...

... to grant the Allies any terms they could reasonably demand. But the war was prolonged partly to suit the interests of the Whigs, and partly on account of the great distrust felt by Marlborough, Eugene, and Heinsius for Louis XIV. At last peace was made ...

... Brougham upon his first assumption of the post vacated by Jeffrey; but in I1830 the official airs and peremptoriness of the Whig leader undoubtedly frightened him into a breach not only of editorial propriety, but even of editorial good faith, in his treatment ...

... of Canning with the Whigs; and it is- curious to find in a letter of Lord Palmerston to his brother, dated May 4,. 1827, a description of the behaviour of the Whigs differing very widely indeed from the account given of it by the Whig leaders themselves ...

... Mr. Gorham, and the numerous seces- sions to Rome which followed that of Mr. Newman, had rendered more than ever unpopular. Whigs and Latitudinarians disliked him for his orthodoxy; the, orthodox disliked him for what they called his insincerity; the E ...

... this was to strengthen the Tories but it also prepared the way for the accession of George I., and the consequent rise of the Whigs to power. The interest excited by the controversy was revealed in the savage tone of some of those who took part in it. ?? ...

... but his own. If, for the sake of giving a rough notion of the drift of his teaching, we describe Mr. Cory as a philosophical Whig with an binterest in foreign politics by which he comes near the Palmerston school, and a special bent for political economy ...

... non-intervention is in accordance with its interests. This was the lesson read to English Tories by d French Radical when Whig statesmen were given to meddling abroad and offering inconsiderate and dangerous advice. M. Louis Blanc Wrotr several letters ...

... honour of England and the interests of civilization depend upon the elections, and he laughs in private at the suggestion that Whig and Tory mean anything but In and Out. He plumes himself upon his perfect frankness, and pities the poor parson who can never ...

... lea, member for Dublin governs Ireland. The Whigs goverbl nothingd e Downing-street. The right honourable gentleman, the member fot Tamwooth, is contented with power without place or patronage, ard t rf Whigs are contented with place and patronage without ...

... have stood on end if you had assured him that lis sound Whig principles were simply a form of dogged Conservatlsmr? Was he not in favour of the Reform Bill, of free trade, and ot every accepted Whig shibboleth ? It was quite true, but it was equally trie ...