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... Swift, writing in the year 1710, says: * us there seems to have been a barrenness in this point of party names, the words Whig and Tory, although they are net much above thirty years oli, having been pressed ty the service of many successions of parties ...
... Lord Palmerston is not himself a Whig ; he is only associated with Whigs just now, having been for many of his earlier years associated with Tories. Lord John Russell is the best exponent of Whig principles and Whig policy ; and we can show, ciples which ...
... criticism is one of the most truly catholic and tolerant of writers. For real merit of every kind, whether be shown Tory or by Whig, Churchman or Dissenter, his praise always ready, and warm. The Essays comprised in this volume would alone sufficient attest ...
... splendid philippic delivered by Lord Gre the King’s brother in one hand, and her grandson | against Mr Canning, when the great Whig leader (the beir to the throne of Ond: je) in the other, and | believed that his political career would close in Op- ritain ...
... icy in the author of a small pamphlet, written in en- titled “The Italian aestion,” and addressed to Lord Palmerston and the Whigs. The writer says, that if the King of Naples has been of late #o un- justly assailed, it was use he had on all ocea- sions ...
... barristers of thirdrate pretensions threaten to disparage the constitution the House of Commons. If take seventy members of the Whig and purely aristocratic connection from the Parliamentary Liberals, we shall find that the rest of the Liberal representation ...
... masses respect and admire even in their antoffonists. The fever of party-politics then ran high Edinburgh elsewhere; and the Whig candidates were not over delicate or scrupulous in their efforts to depreciate and annoy the young rival who dared to meet ...
... pouring into the coffers of their opponents, and then they acknowledged there was no use in struggling'againat fate and British Whigs.* The consequence their despair was, that Van was a used up man before the canvass was half over, and that came out at last ...