... war time, as the country became tranquillized, the politicians who looked liberally forward acquired power and influence. The Whig party gained public confidence. The Tories went into separate camps, as those who, using the name of Pitt, renounced his policy ...

... pride such as only an English Whig Peer, a Cardinal, or a Brahmin ever honestly feels, neither compromised or gave way; and even when Canning made a movement towards Liberal opinions, and drew around him some of the leading Whig statesmen, Lord Grey stood ...

... without question to spend their leisure on the business of legislation. Because at more than one period of our history the great Whig families have produced patriotic Englishmen, true representatives of the best mind of their own country, they have hastened ...

... purposes easily imagined. The chief of the elder line of the Cecils thereupon deter- mined not to be outdone by his petty Whig rivals, and so on, and so on. We are not half through the book, and the farther we go the more intolerable become its tawdry ...

... with I a skilfully-arranged view of the distribution of political opinion, by use of yellow and blue colours to represent t Whig and Tory politics, in connexion with various arrange- ments indicative of the number and the party politics of members returned ...

... Guelphs were Whigs, friends of the Papacy, because the Papacy was at feud with the Empire. In due time the Ghibellines lost their individuality alto- gether, even as the Tories are doing now, and the Guelphs separated into old-fashioned Whigs and Radicals ...

... famous Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, was its chief supporter in the City, and Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax, the most promising Whig statesman of the day, warmly recommended it at Court and to the Government. At last it was adopted. In the summer of 1694 ...