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TOWN AND TABLE TALK ON LITERATURE, ART, &c

... rather have seen Mrs. Fletcher in a box at a theatre than have seen Mrs. Siddons on the stage of the same theatre. She was a Whig, and long a widlow. She i married for love of. what marriage is said seldom to give-liberty. Her husband, Archisiald Fletcher ...

LITERATURE

... changes, 'the lot k-fell upon Whig, which was 'very significative, as well as It ready; being vernacular in Scotland, from whence it was - borrowed, for corrupt and sour whey. Defoe accepts this i le derivation of Whig; and says.the use of it began in ...

OLD AND NEW FASHIONS IN DRESS

... colour, with buttons half way up the arm sr .i on the outside. Blue and red marked the Tory wearer, and blue A it- and buff the Whig. The Radicals were then in the shell, for if ui is any one of a more liberal feeling called out reform too pi loudly, he ...

TOWN AND TABLE TALK ON LITERATURE, ART, &c

... R}2Wobert W'Nalpole -unless the trial of Sacheverell will justify the introduction of the character of the future glory of the Whigs. The last Bombay mail announces the safe arrival in Bom- bay of Mr. Layard, the Nineveh scholar and ex-l. P. for LAyiesbury ...

PICTURE OF THE TIMES WHEN GEORGE THE THIRD WAS KING.*

... combination as that which, for a series of years, vainly endeavoured to drag down the great defender of the Revolution. Discarded Whigs; orators of shiming parts and'of 'the highest promise, *hose eager ambition was baffled by his arrogan''e'of' 'power ;, par- ...