... are now. But they are written in a slovenly style, and betray a strong party spirit. We see in them the old Whig in all his glory: the Whig of those days when there were but two parties in the State, and but two recognized sets of principles; and when ...

... Near Craywich also resided the Langhornes, a family once of some consequence, but now in rapid decadence, and as bitterly Whig in principle as the Aldersons were Tory to the core. George Langhorne was a clever, ambitious lad of nineteen, noticeable in ...

... the chosen representative of Whig principles, and one to whom the traditions of the elders must have descended in their full integrity. No man in the whole world probably is so well qualified in these respects to write a Whig view of Mr. Fox's career -which ...

... There are Whig legends and Tory legends, Whig ballads and Tory ballads, and the red roses and white roses of Scottish poetry have never agreed. The Lammermoor legend is a Tory one; and the Whig and Presbyterian AGNEWS sympathize with the Whig and Presbyterian ...

... coalition was for a long time possible between the Whigs and the Canningites ; and when these reasons had almost disappeared the only medium of communication with the Oppo- sition leaders was no longer in the Whig camp. Lord Grenville had retired from public ...

... deal with it. The Radical, he says, is the most successful in his answer; he denies that inequality is a fact of nature. The Whig hesitates between Radical equality and Conservative exclusion. The Conservative believes in order alone, without recognizing ...

... had been still further stimulated in lursuit of political changes by the dethronement of Charles X. By all these events the Whigs profited in proportion. Theyhad, as was suppoted, once more a king upon the throne not averse to the policy of Reform; the ...

... Thomas Danvers, a brave, drinking, hunting, duelling, King's right, D.i grzit man, and his wife Penelope, a stanch Puritanical Whig lady, who feasted, in the absence of her husband from home, Monmouth on his short road to the block, and always fasted on the ...

... of the time, chief of chiefs and hero of heroes, Nawab Governor-General Lord Minto, Bahddur. So did the image of a Scotch Whig peer reflect itself in the mind of a Calcutta moulvie in i8io. The book is interesting as a specimen of Mohammedan benevolent ...

... nt can teach. The Refosm Bill of 8g6o, known to be no favourite with the Premier himself, was snubbed by the aristocratic Whigs, and allowed by Lord Palmerston to be so nearly defeated that Lord Russell was compelled to let it fall. No attempt to introduce ...

... would have been justified; for the small number of Mr. Canning's personal followers who might have )referred uniting with the Whigs to combining heartily with the Duke of W1'ellington would have made but a slight impression on the power of the Tory party ...

... King took the benefit of the doubt. He had as much right to put his own construction on the theory of the Constitution as the Whigs had to put theirs. The public was the judge. And how did it decide the suit? As we know, in favour of the King. And though ...