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... In our day two questions are very hard to be answered; Who are Whigs and Tories ?” and What are Whigs and Tories ?” Dr. Johnson was at no loss for a reply to one at least of these queries. A characteristic conversation is reported his faithful biographer:—“ ...
... WHIG FIT WILSON, SURGED N, REMOVED from Dixon-lank to FARM-BANK Shrewsbury-road. Door opposite Granville street. ...
... which contains Sir John Pakiugton and Lord Stanley as from a Whig cabinet, which could not tolerate the presence of Lord John Russell, the greatest reformer that has borne the name of Whig for the last half century. ...
... distrust that annihilated the one will avert the other. Still will the Liberals be divided into the moderate and extreme, the Whigs and Radicals hut in their united action the man to whose claims they will naturally defer, and who will resume his place as ...
... of the new workhouse a severe snd strenuous advocate for economy in all its branches. Now, if a Tory comes against a Whig, or a Whig against a Radical, and vice versa, then each party feels as if there was some chance t) extend their own cause being ...
... income of a judge at the Cape. Every argument based on the assumption that the theatre of action is too remote to tempt even Whig rapacity, is met and destroyed by this simple consideration. What we have to reflect upon is the danger of placing in the hands ...
... THE OPPOSITION AND THE MINISTRY. There are four distinct sections of the Oppositionthe Palraerstonians, the Bedford Whigs, Mr. Gladstone and his friends, and the vanguard of the Liberals, with their flying columns, sharpshooters, forlorn hope, and stragglers ...
... Ballot Mr. Locke King’s Tenponuder, neither of whom, of course, can have chance of winning on their own merits. Russell’s Woburn Whig must have a good chance for this race. He has performed very well at different times; and, although rather off” lately we hear ...
... gained—the free navigation of tbe *n? U > • tE ' ac,, V ro * ea of Prince Albert a influence here. His tools were the late Whig ministry. He persuaded them that opposition to the crown would endanger the aristocrticy by the great social conflict that ...
... made by every single apologist of the new system, that Whig aristocracy may have all the Indian plac.s f.r t eir relaiions if they only think propjr to take ih'in ') lu tr/oie acknowledges that a Whig minister will jo'), hot argues that his leavings are ...
... one of the ringleaders called out, To the Whig ! to the Whig office 1’ The movements of the mob were at once reversed, and, in a body, they proceeded through Calender-street. When they came in front of the Whig office one of the ringleaders, attired in ...
... coming into power on one policy, and then deserting it for another. They said, in 1845-6, If we are to have a Whig or Liberal policy let us have a Whig or Liberal government.” And so they will say now, If John Bright is to rule, let John Bright take his seat ...