... younger men whom he gathered round his standard were not bound by these traditions. After all, the great point upon which the Whigs were turned out was finance. On most constitutional questions the Peelites came into Parliament with their hands untied. Mr ...

... Lyndhurst have so much the less reason to complain that Lord Campbell is impartially lavish of criticism and condemnation. Of the Whig party, perhaps Lords Grey and Lansdowne escape as easily as any, but Lords Melbourne and Althorpe have little reason to co ...

... impartiality in their estimates of the characters and achievements of families. The wind is perhaps a little tempered sometimes to Whig lambs. If a RUSSELL rats during the Civil War, orgets horsewhipped by an attorney, the best face is put on the event, or it ...

... impartiality in their estimates of the characters and achievements of families. The wind is perhaps a little tempered sometimes to Whig lambs. If a RUSSELL rats during the Civil War, or gets horsewhipped by an attorney, the best face is put on the event, or it ...

... wealth. Few lawyers in the United States have been so successful in all varieties of practice, lie thes a member of the old Whig party, but when it was dissolved and the larger portion of it became the present Republican party, Mr. Johnson being a Southerner ...

... tergiversatio115 how he began as a Jacobin, turned Antijacobin, accepted place from the Tories, then got into Parliament as a Whig, and ended his days as a kind of comprehensive, eclectic philosopher-all this was well known in its day, and is pretty nearly ...

... of our readers will recognize the name of this young and liberal Protestant pastor, who was found to be too liberal by the Whigs of French Protestantism, but who has nevertheless a considerable following. He needed a holiday; and being occupied with a ...

... suggested within the succeeding hundred years. Finally it was tried in the Corn- prehension scheme of x689, which our best Whig historians, Barnet, Hallam, and Macaulay, are agreed in considering as happily frustrated. Certainly, had it succeeded, it ...

... the room, who are described in terms of graceful circumlocution; as, for example, a forensic star of the first magnitude, a Whig leader possessed of great popularity and of scientific acquiremdents of a high order. No one could mistake that marked phy ...

... Of the political movements of the last century we have a clear and forcible exposition, showing how the-- assumption of the Whigs of the Revolution that the destiny of the Country was to be governed by a select number of patrician families was followed ...

... political complexion of the Pall Mall Gazetle, translated into an equivalent American designation is, it seems, Old Line Whig. London amusements appear in a much more favourable light to Mr. Fiske than to most of our visitors, and, it may be added ...

... neighbours, and I fear we should have all fallen greatly in Mr. Mill's estimation if he had overheard their remarks. The words Whig, Tory, Radical, Liberal, Conservative, and Opposition were mentioned by my companions with great glibness and considerable ...