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... on Lord John Russell, for nos withdrawing from the late Government three months before lie resigned, and the leader of the Whigs is openly accused of a dereliction of duty. On the whole the number is worthy of the vigour with wxhichl this establishbed ...

Literature

... lowing is a glimpse of the WHIGS AND TORIES. The generic divisions of Whbig and Tory had undergone a great change since the commencement of the century. The distinction betveen Whigs and Patriots-that is W~higs in office and Whigs in Opposition no longer ...

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... ; and to these he unites administrative and oratorical talents of a very high order. As First Lord of the Admiralty on the Whigs' accession to office in 1830, and again when the Russian war broke out in 1854, he evinced a degree of vigour and capacity ...

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... Calhoun, from South Carolina, although the advocate of sou1thern rights an linti ri isg chaimipion of slavery ; acd oii thc Whig side, to Mr Clayton, of I)cla vare, Nwithl his strong practical sense; to Mr Crit- teaden, one of the most ac'comiplislhed ...

Literature

... A iroor poet, a cuetrairing prose wrilter-, silo had a a dcsicrtc, rapid, aird subtelle iurtolligettee, which tried its a whigs at cvrty sttbject, alighited for a moment, rueverI -penetratingl beneath tire sufrc oucrigth lr 5 omly with tire point of her ...

Literature

... ellow, corrus- Y Cating inito teio most eccentric alnd many-coloured sparks-wh1eu Patt was yolngi as well as gay-when the Whigs wvere acquiring instead of' losing confidence C in Lord John-when Wordsworti's reputation as a poeut was still matter ol'd ...

Literature

... itfirmitici of a WIlig critic, lie certainly had also its extrinsic atid political advantages. Especially nt El'inliurgh, the Whigs wantied a literary man. The Liberal party in Scotland had long groaned utinder political exclusion they bad suffered, witt ...