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LITERATURE

... these rhymed reasons are very spirited and clever. Theradicalmakeshard hits now and then, and is specially severe with the whigs. Stop that Australia, is a good bit of sarcasm. He singe:- I Quick! ship them off some queens and Idngs; Somepriiites, g ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... for purposes easily imagined. The chief of the elder line of the Cecils thereupon determined not to be outdone by his petty Whig rivals, the Fitz williams, with which object in view he etimmoued the poet in his turn. The gorgeous scarlet messenger who ...

LITERATURE

... with them on an jque o eieonflhe-dhy We sun find them gs di- g venity of sentiment as their u5periors in tatin. There are whigs among them and tones; thu. are federals and t confederates; there are churchmen and dissenters; there b are some for, aid Some ...

THE LITERARY EXAMIME

... 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 ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... 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 ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... 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 ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... 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 ...

NEW NOVELS

... if people ought to govern themselves, instead of of being governed against their will, however ably, wI by either tories or whigs. The result of these doubts is that he leaves Parliament, and his engage- ment with Lady Vivian Ashleigh, the daughter of ...