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THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... was one of the cleverest advertise- ments we remember. The zamiae- is quite welcome to be as servile as it pleases-and few Whig-Radical papers can surpass it in servility. But when it' deviates into abuse and hazards false statements it must expect! condiga ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... years' leisure in the life of one of our foremost statesmen. Lord Derby's English 'Iliad ' is one of the good things we owe to a Whig Government; for had the Tories heent in office the noble translator would hardly have had leisure enough for its production ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... afterwards, on occa- sion of Sterne's ordination and his preferment to Sutton Vicarage in 1738, it is said that the sound Whig arch- deacon had obtained it for his nephew. Jaques Sterne was not, to be sure, an archdeacon till eight years later, but ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... that some are very wise, And some are very funny, And some grow rich by telling lies, And some by telling money. I think the Whigs are wicked knaves, And very like the Tories, Who doubt that Britain rules theawaves, And ask the price of glories; I think ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... whose mouth, when he speaks, drop title-pages, instead of the toads or diamonds, as the case may be, of the little Tory and Whig in the fairy tale. Captain Speke's volume left much to be written by any companion who had a sharper faculty of observation ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... There was a feeling amongst a few that a penny weekly sheet would be below the dignity of the Society. One gentleman of the old Whig school, who had not. originally belonged to the Committee, said again and again, It is very awkward. Lord Brougham, however ...