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... occupy as the leader of the ?? party, both in Parlie- ineut and in the country. In 1841 a vote of want of confidence in the Whig government of the day, proposed in the Souse df Commons by Sir Robert Peel, was carried by a majority of one. A dissolution ...
... oooupy as the leader of the free-trade party, both ho parliament and in the country. ?? 181 a vete of want of confidence imthe whig cermenent or the day, proposed in the H~ouse of Comons boy Sir lobert Peel, was3 carried by a ma- tolit! of one, A dissolution ...
... matters and salarie, dawned upon the practical mind of the Anglo- Saxon race. A new political group took its seat beside the Whigs and the Tories. Henceforth it never quitted the House of Commons. There it acquired its ranic, its influence; there it caused ...
... to say gave him more pleasure than any subsequent success in life. He served three months, and on his return was nominated a Whig candidate for the Illinois legislature, but the country being Democratic he was beaten. His own election precinct, however ...
... foreign politics were, at this time, his nearest points of contact with the Whigs. And to the Whigs he now went over, accepting in 1830 the seals of the Foreign Office in the Whig Ministry formed under Lord Grey, which carried the Reform Bill, and, with ...
... that peculiarly exclusive temple of fme. Almost allhis political contemporaries who took a leading position, whether in the whig or in the tory ranks, were Cambridge men. If Byron, Coleridge, rand Wordsworth are to be classedaamong OUT greatest Kpoets ...
... latter were popular 'in England, and he separated himself from them for aver when the English people turned to the views of the whigs. In this also lies the secret of his popu- larity. The nation believed in him, and he became Indispensable to it- and if d ...
... on Equity, which was greatly esteemed by lawyers both in England and America. He sat in Parliament, always voting with the Whigs. Mr Fonblanque matriculated at Caims College, Cambridge, but before the time for hil taking his degree he burst a blood-vessel ...