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... WHAT IS A WHIG? find in Notes and Queries several learned derivations of the word Whig. It is an old discussion—what reporters would call a moot point, or a vexed question ; but we have no space to analyse the definitions given by Dr. JonNsox and ...
... score or two of the Whig freeholds in their schedule of disfranchisement, they would net have made one Whig enemy the more, while, on the other hand, they might have gained any number of Liberal supporters. For, the fact is, the Whigs must always hate any ...
... find the Whigs reading homilies to their predecessors on political corruption and ministerial dishonesty! Supposing the Tories to be just as guilty as Sir WILLIAM RussELL's Whig champion BouvEnTE would have us to suppose, of course the Whigs while in ...
... and Son. further instalment of Mr. Massey's book—for Which the Whigs cannot feel too grateful —brings the Georgian Chronicle down from 1781 to 1793. Looking upon history from a purely Whig point-ot-view, and judging all men and things from the hustings ...
... anxiety has been displayed for the good of the nation. In fact we might almost find an apt illustration of the conduct of Whigs And Tories in the _somewhat trite conversation of the village pedagogue and his scholars. What are you doing, Jack ? Nothing ...
... master. The name of Burke is identified with the earliest agitation of those great questions, upon their advocacy of which the Whigs have been content to rest their claims to the confidence of their countrymen. He was one of the first public men who saw clearly ...
... commingling of the fiery sentiments of a bibulous, voluptuous Irish seditionist, and the conventional thinking of an English carpet Whig, frequenting Brookes's and Lansdowne house; the moralising Toryism of Wordsworth is to be noted in the Excursion, and in several ...
... principle in the Ministerial resistance. The harbours of refuge are intended to preserve life and property. But when did a Whig Government take any interest in either life or property that did not belong to themselves? Some people have been mad enough ...
... of the old, stereotyPi hacic Whigs into the Cabinet? Softly now, oh Patriot, indignant at being excluded from serving thy country! I quite agree with you that the ostracism of these routine, robustious, and self-seeking Whigs would be alike conducive to ...
... rank and file of the Old Whigs still rally, as I pointed out last week, under his somewhat dingy banner. The fact is, they have no one else to lead them. PA.L3IERSTON has too much dash to take the position. At the head of the Whig Party, as such, he would ...
... of Rheims, Nobody seemed one penny the worse; and I much question whether the. cynosure of all eyes, the High Church Whig (if Whig he be—l don't know!) felt himself even a baubee the better for the blessing of the Presbyterian minister. Oh! alas poor ...
... that its journals and reviews should keep pace, in point of intelligence and information, with the liberal organs, whether Whig, Radical, or Republican. The following summary is supplied of newspaper politics:— ...