... a bishop. 'Tis true that the great men of his party mustered at his obsequies, and probably there were some of the mighty Whigs who could afford a tear to the'memdry of one of the brightest ornaments of their party. The veteran Lansdowne was there, the ...

... was strongly attached to his political friends, and deeply imbued with those immortal principles which haye assigned to the Whig party so glorious a share in the annals and government of this country. -But he raised thosexprinciples to, a higber power: ...

... pretty much, the same may, we fear, be averred of the whole of the small and exclusive band of privileged placemen, whether Whig or Tory, who, by turns, monopolize the government of the country. In times long gone by, ere the schoolmaster had taken active ...

... anxious search of moor- ings better suited to the wants and tendencies of the age. This was particularly the case with the Whigs, towards whom Macaulay's early associations and liberal turn of mind caused him to gravitate,. The moral atmosphere of that ...