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... RIGHT HON. DAVID R. PIGOT. Mb Piooi was Attorney-General when I went circuit first, but joined us on the retirement of the Whig administration in 1841. Ha became member of the circuit on being called to the bar in 1826, and stepped at once into business ...
... Palmerston, and they only share to a limited extent the deference'of their predecessors for the time-honoured leader of the Whigs. The respect which is inspired by visible powers and success fell to the share of the Premier, and the prize of oratory was ...
... OCR CONTEMPORARIES. There never was a time when Conservatives should more steadily watch the conduct of the Whigs. A decided impression prevails in well-informed quarters, that mportant political manoeuvres will take place before next Christmas. Many ...
... musician is born with a conductor’s baton in his head. Political Distinctions.— One grows a Liberal—ouo is born a Tory. As for a Whig, he is either a Liberal who has failed, or Tory who has been snubbed. Query for those whom it mat Concern.—ls the Indian c ...
... was before us that it might necessary for some ono else to present a consecutive view of the life of the most eloquent of the Whig statesmen.” Lord John Russell unwilling to part with that honourable responsibility in favour of some one else.’’ The introduction ...
... for life from the councils of the Sovereign and tbe service of the State, but be announced tbe minister that is to be—the Whig Premier in reversion. And why all this? Whence this sudden ebullition of unwonted praise—this outburst of unusual admirationf ...
... gratitude was not among his virtues—that long before he publicly moved in the matter, the most distinguished leaders of the Whig party had made the question their own. It had been agitated in England and in Ireland, not as Roman Catholic measure its narrow ...
... round to receive the contributions. * # A bon mot of Potzo’s is cited from London:—Lady Holland exulting in the duration of the Whig Government, notwithstanding the late anticipations of their fall, said to him the other night, * Vous voyez, Monsieur I’Am- ...
... or of riband-bills of a hundred pounds; aod such a dinner as that of Hogartbs would killi must our political aspirants. If a Whig Duke now fell under the table dead-drnuk at public entertainment, it would happily excite much such a sensation as in old Rome ...