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LITERATURE

... unpopular reminiscences of the Whig party nom. passed into oblivion, and his authority descended ito. to the new chieftain, i and s With better quie, 3 and Better opinion, better Confirmation. And from that day forward the Whigs began slowly, but steadily ...

LITERATURE

... author of what would now be called a Liberal policy I t is necessarily a Whig. And here it is that we join Ii .1 issue with him. We deny that the radical distinc- a tion between Whigs and Tories is to be found in c D the character of their policy. This, ...

CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.*

... 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 ...

WORK-A-DAY BRIERS

... 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 ...

COURT AND FASHION

... present Ministry. For a quarter ot a century Pontefract has returned the new Whig lord who was lately Mr. Mouckton Milnes, and it was, us doubt, anticipated that another Whig would quietly succeed him. Yet no sooner are they free from the inflaence of ...

Published: Sunday 09 August 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1519 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CHARLES JAMES FOX

... 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 ...

RECENT FAMILY HISTORIES

... 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 ...

LORD LIVERPOOL

... 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 ...

CUTTINGS FROM THE COMIC JOURNALS

... but they may geti mar- ried to nmen who love their morhing cigars, then we opine their opinions will end in smoke. A great whig peer, was maldng his will the other 'cay, and after he had dicated it hin lawyer pointed out to him that he had made no provision ...

LITERATURE

... entitled The Old Monk in the Belfr-y. There is great vigour and solemnity in this tale of human misery. Under the title of A Great Whig Journalist we find a valuable biographical notice of Daniel Defoe. It is in fact a review of Mr. William Lee's work on the ...

Published: Sunday 10 October 1869
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 557 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SCRAPS FROM THE COMIC PERIODICALS

... Farewell Performances-Auch Ado About Nothing. THE Conservatives always boasted that they were tbe true economists, and not tne Whigs. They have proved it this session, for immediately the tailors' strike began they 1a0t no time in learning how to turn their ...

THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT

... Fleecing the millions, and keeping them down, To feather their nests, and to prop up the Crown. These class logisitors, the Whigs and the Tories, However divided, still always agree; It is their ambition, and highest of glories, To crush down the people ...