... most brilliant and thoughtful exponents of Whig policy. He has been, as we think he said on one occasion, first an Englishman and then a Whig. For ourselves we have too often had to find fault with the Whigs. Too often the necessity has arisen, brought ...

... a parable of the day, describing the Whigs in the worst colours possible, the Duke of Guise standing for the Duke of Monmouth. In 1683 appeared City Politics, in which Crowne made a violent attack upon the Whigs. The miserable hypocrite,. Titus Oates ...

... had then few states- men ill their ranks, and their influence was felt in the division rather than in the ?? Whigs of 1763, no longer the Whigs of Cing William or Queen Anne, may be justly termed the founders of that distinguished party which bears their ...

... the prevailing feeling, both among the moderate Whigs and the great mass of the Tories. Sir Henry Hardinge told Sir James Graham that he supposed we should all go out the next morning. Many of the Whigs thought it impossible the Government could succeed ...

... DnEr'NDA EST -the blue book of the elder Cato, on the return of that right honourable gentleman from his expedition as one of the Whig commissioners for examining the affairs of Magna Carthago-was merciful and complimentary compared with the language held to ...

... whole world is divided into tories andl whigs on the one hand, and the prince regent and Lord MIoira on the other. And in Carlton House you see a perfect Divine Comedy reversed-beain- ning with the paradise of the Whig party anid plunging thruglh its purgatory ...

... we read this: - The Rockingham Whigs must be esteemed as a revival of that party which had obtained for the country the Revolution. of' 1688, and had established the House of Hanover on the thronii. The virtue of the Whigs had greatly declined under Newcastle; ...

... It is quite unexampled at the present day that men of such sagacity and such firmness should be employed by either party, Whig or Tory. We need care little for speeches. icholas. Perhaps so. But sometimes a red-hot word, falling upon soft tinder and ...

... pride such as only an English Whig Peer, a Cardinal, or a Brahmin ever honestly feels, neither compromised or gave way; and even when Canning made a movement towards Liberal opinions, and drew around him some of the leading Whig statesmen, Lord Grey stood ...

... By E. T. Stevens, A.K.C. Lon., and Charles Hole, F.R.G.S. The Senior Class Reader. Longmans.-'Justice to Ireland; or, the Whigs and the Tories.' A Conversation between Mr Cornelius O'Flaherty, of Melbourne, Australia, and Mr Patrick O'Brien, of the co ...

... interesting fragments of local story that the mind can have to dwell upon. It begins with Tories paramount, and ends with Whigs in the ascendant. It begins with a picturesque old capital, inhabited by clever men, not too many to know and watch and talk ...

... The quaint old dress, the grand old style, The mots, the racy stories; The wine, the dice, the wit, the bile- The hate of Whigs and Tories. Mr. Kemble is an admirable Snarl, playing the part with a will, and delivering the lecture on the supposed portrait ...