... measures they had proposed in vain. The Lords baffled the Commons and laughed at them for being baffled. Lord Lyndhurst killed the Whig bills, and then once a year danced his war-dance, and counted the scalps he had taken. Could this happen again ? Could Lord ...

... quarters, which culminated in the bedchalaber episale on the resignation of Lord Melbourne's ministry. The ladies-in-wsaiting, of Whig fannilies who had been appointed by him were required to ?? by the incoming Minister, Sir Robert Peel; and her Majesty's successult ...

... eighteenth century a hearty admiration of George Buchanan, or even a too marked zeal for the Reformation, was the sign of a Whig. By degrees, however, as jacobitism waned, the inquiry came to be treated more as a purely historical one. Hume, though a Torv ...

... book to itself. Besides, this was to be a great year for the sister island. The war was to drive tourists over there perforce. Whig and Tory journalists vied with each other in painting the delights of Irish travel; for the Irish vote, though not worth ...

... influence on our recent history or present condition. In truth, the lecturer appears to hate it rather as an invention of the Whigs (whom he detests, though be thinks Providence has made them, for some inscru table purposes, a little less stupid than the ...

... more learned boards of electors in Oxford, pre- ferred the claims of party to those of learning and fitness. Hamilton was a Whig, and the majority of the council was Tory, and so Hamilton was rejected, and Wilson (a man, we need hardly say, of great eminence ...

... first had the misfortune to differ with his friends, and embarked on the vexed sea of politics in his pamphlet attacking the Whig sympathy with the Turks. What the event was which corresponded to the shipwreck wherein all the men perished but himself ...