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LITERATURE

... there were the county papers whlg and tory-but we did not think muck of them, for we knew the editors, and distrusted the whig's arguments because his father had been bankrupt, and disbelieved much that the tory said because he had a wooden leg-editors ...

LITERATURE

... visible schisma in the old Tory party, I which, though in this instance the Whigs cams over to r Canniing's section of the Tories, onded in that section 3 going over to the Whigs, and uniting with and ulhimately outrunning them in such a developnent of ...

LITERATURE

... Manners held otlice, showed a perception of the a- advantages nnd claims of architecture, which were not Of ignored until fossil Whigs were reinstated on the Treasury 'g Benches. Instead of building an India Office worthy of n- our Eastern Empire, these lost ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... an American, Mr Frank Moore, through all the smoke of its own passion (1l). From files of Ameri- can papers of the day, both Whig and Tory, Mr Moore has taken the news that flew from town to town. The value of I these contemporary slips from papers inaccessible ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... thy harmony-ohe lonely as- ny heart is filledwith rapture, and, as list to th Pirtd ear seems to drink in tlhe melody. Thy whig ee'. ry bring to memory other days. Oh, that it were thy Per ns to wait thauehte and wishes to loved ones iyan uersao u iglaly ...

LITERATURE

... author of what would now be called a Liberal policy I t is necessarily a Whig. And here it is that we join Ii .1 issue with him. We deny that the radical distinc- a tion between Whigs and Tories is to be found in c D the character of their policy. This, ...

THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION.*

... effect on his patient and long-suffering constituents. From all classes of Liberals -from the ardent Radical to the phlegmatic Whig-are heard curses not loud but deep, which threaten a speedy termination to the honourable gentleman's niarepresenta. ( ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Surprise an elegance, conceive a trope, And pose logicians with a line from Pope. Or young or old, no patriot more alone- Whigs claim him not, and Radicals disown. Ye modern liberal Benthamitic crew, Nought had that Gracchus in top-boots with you! Talk ...

LITERA TURE

... country with the splendid prerogatives of Majesty, th does not materially diffor from the constitutional mi idea of the English Whig, as it has been avowed fo: and practised among us since the Revolution of co 1688. We might extract from the speeches of an ...

LITERATURE

... previously to the Reform Bill agitation, pave the way for that milder and more docile species of Conservatism which, after the Whig forces of 1832 had fruitfully spent themselves, again appeared in the ascendant from 1841. to 1846, impersonated in Sir Robert ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... possessed was sufficient to make her fortune. She was, more. over, much cleverer than the other person, and much connected with the Whig ministry. She hadl wonderful powers of conversa- lion for a German, and could be very agreeable when she chose. The king was ...

AMATEUR PERFORMANCE at RICHMOND

... politicalb office in so far as it depenrds on the Ministry of the day. For 5 number of years Sir Johin Melville was chairman of the Whig comre mittee, On the re-constitution of the Scottish Universities be Wag chosen by Lord Brougham, Chancellor of Edinburgh ...

Published: Sunday 13 May 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1503 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture