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LITERARY EXTRACTS

... This lady had knocked at Johnson's door; had been intimate with Fox, the beautiful Goorgina of Devonshire, and that brilliant Whig society of the reign of George III. ; -had known the Duchess of Quoensbury, the patroness of Gay and Prior, the admired young ...

POETRY

... Pouh piee seperehced on mkulls not quite patrician; The sate enseles '5 radiant with a glory Farors but in freedom's Isle of Whig and Tory I The meSe, with deep reluctance, must omit Theo laic rivalry of fruits and flowers, and route and cabbages that might ...

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... Macaulay, as may be verified by refer- ence to the 6th volume of his IHistor -I of Enlgland, are- canvassed actively on the whig side 1 A FAIR REMARK.- A middle-aged young lady is so angry with the government for asking her how old she is, that she declares ...

Literary Extracts

... shorter in sta- fro ture, and less gifted in personal gifts and graces than his bli comely son, complained to a friend, a whig peer, who had sh also a son at Cambridge, of the very considerable expen- oh ditur of his heir. Biut, Sir James, rejoined ...

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... LITERARY EXTRACTS. - ?? ~ .- - - - NERvOUSnESs.-A distinguished member of the Whig party, now no more, and who was himself one of the most sensitive of men and one of the most attractive of orators, told me that once, in the House of Commons, he had crossed ...

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... who express the -political opinion of the i country, we find it subdivided :aain and again., There r are the Whigs of the old school, and the Whigs of the new; r; ?? who look back to the good old past, and the d Conservatives who look forward to the better ...

POETRY

... WE SHOULD LIKE EXCESSIVELY TO SnE.- The Ghost of Crinoline. TOUCHUNG THE RUSSELL REsxGNATIOx.-We knew it was all nonsense. A Whig is like the old French Guard -he dies, but never surrenders. A BOAST WORTHY or JouHT BULL.-A new pavement has been laid down ...

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... Marlborougb, you had better speak of that to Lord Townshend, whom I have brought with me. He is a very honest man, but he is a Whig, and he watches me closely ; and don't be surprised if in his presence I express myself as an obstinate and prejudiced Englishman ...

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... there were no disturbing questions, the political complexion of a newspaper was designated by the general name of Federalist, Whig Democrat, and Independent. Then followed the American and Republian, and close upon these the offspring of the slavery agitation ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS*

... whenever I have seen the experiment tried, the operator was always tired before the toad.- Archbiskop ?? Conmmon Place Book. WHIGS AND TouRse.-I have come to the discovery that I am a divine-right Tory. That name, at least, is often applied, and I can't ...

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... intentions were honourable, and also not unwelcome. But when explicit declaration became necessary, it appeared that the great Whig orator's notions were liberal and anti-matrimonial Peremptory dismissal followed; and not long after Lord Derby became the ...

Pickings from Punch

... at school: Declare, with confidence immense, That he and his alone have sense, And that the will of Providence Is that the Whigs should rule. And let one ill-meant taunt be flung, No matter whose the hostile tongue, Whether from Stanley's cynic lips The ...