... a wide ball or two, they set him down, not unnaturally, as a wild radical; soon he steadied, when he was pronounced a mild whig;—but, it was only when he began, to render the batting phalanx' dizzy by successively taking the w!cliets of Taylor and Freeman ...

... ess, judgment, skill, and vigour, and gave many droll and laughable anecdotes of the wordy fights he had had with the old Whigs of his day respecting locomotives and railways. The lecturer did not confine his observations to Stephenson, but embraced several ...