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hill were hardly «uch fit him for the p Ur uit of fureimic celebi About 1824 he had given eviden

... ind'uated that .an essayist of ordii brilliancy i./j arisen to instruct and nninse the reading public. r , long Jie leaders of the Whig party, in rec»g.iiii his intellectual superiority, appointed Mr Al.iciul.iy commissioner and 1830 they for him to House of ...

THE GREENOCK TELECRAPH i

... Random f All the noveli-ts have bee», editors. Swift wrote the Tory p-riodical that cline out to oppose Addison and Steele’s Whig ventures Sir Walter Scott did ...

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM—ITS DANGERS FROM FRIEND AND FOE. (From the Dial of Saturday)— First Number. The wise man ..

... enactment he touches impossible of success, is equally remarkable, was exquisitely adapted to unite against it the phalanx of the Whigs, and to divide on the subject the phalanx of the Tories, Mr Walpole and Mr Henley ralliel round Lord John Russell to defend ...

FROM LIVER FOOL,

... .. West Hrbr. Kerrs & M‘Bride, Grk popular and amusing as Boz. He was a poet-not ism, and enjoys all the advantages of the Whig connee- Spartan, ship Eddington .Greenock 749 Lying up '[“l'',!' r ...

GREENOCK TELEGRAPH, FEBRUARY 2, 1860

... on the Edinburgh hustings, pitched either by his party or purely himself—most probably by the latter—against the magnificent Whig. One thing, siid Aytoun, ** promise ; and it is this. If my sovereign should do me the honour to appoint me to otfi c e, and ...

OUEENOCK T

... year upon the wisdom of his tongue ; and we all know bow, in a series of slashing papers, Blackwood cut and hacked the great Whig for this fault. Strangely contrasting with these criticisms is the testimony of one who knew his Lordship well. reads twenty ...

NEW BOOKS

... confess to having more faith in Linds’y Alexander as orator than even in Inglis, while we should prefer the Whig chapbun, Dr Robert Lee, any Whig advocate that walks the flags in St. iles’s Square. Who is courageous enough to whisper the name of a Logan ...

RagUtered for

... decided on ordering the register of their religious profession to be altered in accordance with their express desire. Three Whig candidates have addressed the electors of Derry, soliciting the seat vacant the death of Sir Robert Ferguson. Report gives ...

CHAPTER V

... Government falls under the censorship of tho press, in th'- struggle that preceeded tho Protectorate, t»o now in the figlit between Whig and Tory, both parties looked to papers as main support of their conflicting interests. The appeal was to the people, and that ...

paper assumed a fixed position of political importance in our institutional system. It was the rci£n of Anne, ..

... .ho OHarAan. and the FrtchMer from the same hands, and by the Examiner, in winch Swift and Bolingbroko fought .against the Whig essayist*. So creat was the influence now .acquired over the public mind periodical publications that even the Chancellor, ...

and the Scotch news eight lines. As for the Daily Courant, ft whole number of it would scarcely fill column

... be followed by the noble defence of Robert Hall and the winged words of Sir James Mackintosh. At every public festival the Whig toast was caught up—“ The liberty of the press : it is like the air we breathe; if we have it not, we die.’* A Society of Friends ...

QHEENOCK TELEGRAPH, APRIL 14, 1860. • Agent—Are yoa » boi.r AaMHor—Don’t nnawer Mint quMtion. Agent—There ie ..

... whole of her machinery, and at time of ber launch she will have Clakb El^ctlon, —The nominee of the priests has whopped” the Whig candidate in Clare, through the overpowering influence of their reverences. Captain White would go to the poll on Tuesday. ...