... December 20, 1714. The accession of the House of Hanover led to a change in the political state things. It rehabilitated the Whigs. Lord Sunderland was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland ; and Addison again went to Dublin Chief Secretary. In 1715 he quitted ...

... reign, the best Tory speaker ; Cowper was probably the best Whig speaker. But it may well be doubted whether St. John did so muchfor the Tories as Swift, and whether Cowper did 80 much for the Whigs as Addison. When these things are daly considered, it will ...

... being its author, boasted that be had sung a king out of three kingdoms. These 47 years first heard those grotesque names of “ Whig” ud“‘l‘orx;whhhuo muhd the two great parties un 'hmhnmtz:‘p.:lf feelings of the nation ranged themselves—names however, that ...

... The Conservative leaders have repaid them for evil with good. Far from imitating those intrigues and manoeuvres by which the Whig and Radical coalition succeeded in overturningj the Earl of Derby's administration, that noble Earl j and' his friends have ...