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POLITICS AND THE STAGE

... has to say Damn the City, which was then opposed to the Court, on which a person who hears him adds All the Whigs, Charles, all the Whigs. Lord Shaftesbury is caricatured in Sir Timothy Treat-all, a seditious old knight who entertains; commonwealthmen ...

Published: Sunday 23 June 1878
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1621 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ANNALS OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE

... most women she wa's a Whig ; wonl, tak Toryism naturally, as ducklings to the vater. Bt r aunt was a Whig from family and principle. AU the M clevilles had been Jacobites and Tories, the 1ralfaere5 al been pure Whigs. Pure Whigs-think of that a-a thi ...

New Novels

... comprises a very full and vivid picture of society in the mainly Quaker, partly military, city of Philadel1.hia and of its ' Whigs and ' Tories before and during the War of Independence: a striking portrait of Washington, and a brilliant account of his ...

LITERATURE

... truth there is in its caustic portraitures of whigs dead and living, but also much of the peon- liar view that Lord Brougham's feelings tempt him now to take of them. An entirely reliable estimate of the whigs as a party, and of the surviving members of ...

LORD RUSSELL.*

... from i8x9 to I826 the Whigs did not touch the Reform question, quite overlooking his own great speech in I822. The mistake of the reviewer, however, if any at all, was in the implied statement that in i8i9 and in 1826 the Whigs did adopt the question ...

New Novels

... save honour ; the quaint Scottish gentlewoman of the older world ; the queer little cripple ; the Whig officer who is a good fellow, and the other Whig officer who is an unmitigated villain and poltroon; the trimming provost; the foolish and conceited ...

Magazines

... as we do that there have been Whigs and Tories, trider various aopellations, ever since the world began, and although we do not wish to imitate his acrimony by stating the name (according to Dr. Johnson) of the first Whig, we cannot admit that one party ...

THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS

... damaging to the Whigs; and there is good reason to believe that if the King had lived, and dissolved again, as he would have done, in 1838, the reaction would have been complete. But it would have been chiefly due to a belief that the Whigs would stick ...

Mr. Gladstone at Oxford

... King to Oxford sent a troop of horse. For Tortes own no argument but force, To Cambridge then a gift of books he sent, For Whigs admit no F orce but Argument. In conclusion Mr. Gladstone protested against universities bejn, turned into manufactories of ...

LORD SHELBURNE

... popular imagination, of a mild and patriarchal Whig. But few perhaps remember that he was the son of one statesman, and the connection of another, who are best known to history by their opposition to the Whig families; that Lord Shelburne in particular, ...

LITERATURE

... author of what would now be called a Liberal policy I t is necessarily a Whig. And here it is that we join Ii .1 issue with him. We deny that the radical distinc- a tion between Whigs and Tories is to be found in c D the character of their policy. This, ...

A CRY FOR A CRY

... netel ye but shout that the W'higs are oit Asre the grand gutde tian laid by ? \W'tat hinders ye raise the countrv-side With the cry that should aise it best, That tip in the tree is the wicked Tory, And has raxit the Whig fra the nest? -Now haud ye your ...