... of other men receives many illustrations in this volume, as in all that he writes. Mr. Maurice does not hold the essentially whig idea of Lord Macaulay that English his- tory, truly understood, has its commence- ment with the reign of King John; nor does ...

... rhetoric of Sir Archibald Alison. The excellent rhetoric and special pleading of Lord Macaulay afford intense pleasure to the true whig. According to ?? catholic, Lingard's volumes contain the whole truth, For the seeker after au- thenticated facts there is no ...

... a nt u rieri 'thbber *id'jobb~ri that did no~t ben~ef thepoo, ad h s ideas oE the currny *erequite puerile. Hle hated the Whigs and he did ?? Tor iesh politics were his own. Some of his views went o the extremneof revolutionary radicaliam, others were ...

... the original work is the biography of Charles James Fox, by M. Ville- main, who warmly eulogises the memory of our i great whig statesman as the champion of civil and i religious liberty in a season of conflict and trial. t Upon the whole, we perceive ...

... treatment of the wemarkable period to which, these per- n sons belnd, h been hitherto wofully one t sided; it was either the keen Whig Presbyterian all for'the Covenant, and admitting no flaw in its d adherents,-no virtue in its enemies; or the stanch v episcopal ...

... ments on the diplomatic correspondence. However, in the year of reactions, 1849, it was not to be expected that either the Whig Government of Great Britain, or the Orleanist aned Fusionist Government of France, would protect Venice, or stand there between ...