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... emancipation which the Whigs achieved for Scotland told anew, with all that undoubting faith in its veracity which a party man must needs exhibit. It would almost seem to settled article of the Whigs— we mean, of course, Edinburgh Whigs—that but for their ...
... Lord President of the Council in the Whig Ministry, from November 1830 to November 1834; from April 1835 to September 1841; and again in July 1846. His Lordship has been for many years the acknowledged chief the Whigs, with whose history his public career ...
... eighteenth century Whigs were the great landowners of England. And in boroughs they ruled supreme by influence and corruption. Where the towns returning members were populous, Tories had a chance ; but over most of the smaller boroughs Whig agents threw their ...
... and if they wero not quite neglected in the distribution of the minor patronage. Great Whigs smiled at the notion of a large infusion of new blood, and little Whigs asked, with supercilious complacency, where was the proof that new blood was coming forward ...
... is here implied to Lord Clarendon should thought a compliment rather than otherwise. CFrom the Spectator.) On the whole, the Whig houses conclude that thoir path is with the people, and the refusals, if rumour speaks truth, have been very frank and decisive ...
... rd has | may come over the spirit of the Whig dream, or what, for the sake of appearances and to conciliate popular favour the Whigs may not do, but true it is and of verity, that so far as yet appears, the Whig intention is no promise obscurely worded ...
... theirs should be used fur the purpose of enabling a Whig Ministry to remain in power without passing Liberal measures. In recent years the Whig idea of a model political system has been this—that the Whigs should furnish the place:nen, the Radicals should ...
... over Mr Gladstorm by the simple law of senility. . . . This characteristic of the great Whig perty is a curious subject of contemplation. Summarily described, the Whigs,. as Whip, are always dying. A moribund life their normal state of existence; and perhaps ...
... Carlton Club is fatal them. A truly Christian Whig, when smitten, as Mr Osborne has been, on the right cheek, would doubtless have turned the left cheek also to the hand of the smiter ; but truly Christian Whigs are rare fowl. Had Mr Osborne at once admitted ...
... in the Whigs. From the Whigs, however, better things were expected. The people trusted the Whigs, and were betrayed. We bring no slander against the party in making this statement. We learn from Lord Jeffrey's Essays that the policy of the Whigs has ever ...
... it having been established in 1770. For a long period it took the lead of the other journals, and represented the Whig Party and Whig politics with great ability and fidelity. The paper declined gradually in influence from 1840 till about twelve years ...
... than it is gram& Wary influential gentleman in the kingdom hiinself to get the Government of the countryman the hands of the Whig jobbers, who are now the public interest for their private profit. ...