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RECENT FAMILY HISTORIES

... There are Whig legends and Tory legends, Whig ballads and Tory ballads, and the red roses and white roses of Scottish poetry have never agreed. The Lammermoor legend is a Tory one; and the Whig and Presbyterian AGNEWS sympathize with the Whig and Presbyterian ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... 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 ...

THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT PLYMOUTH

... result was that words came to fisticuffs, making such a noise as to bring the admiral on deck to see what was the matter. Whigs and tories were equally anxious to explain that their mutual pum- melling had been exchanged in a strictly parliamentary and ...

MR. GLADSTONE'S OPINIONS

... younger men whom he gathered round his standard were not bound by these traditions. After all, the great point upon which the Whigs were turned out was finance. On most constitutional questions the Peelites came into Parliament with their hands untied. Mr ...

THE GOVERNING FAMILIES OF ENGLAND

... impartiality in their estimates of the characters and achievements of families. The wind is perhaps a little tempered sometimes to Whig lambs. If a RUSSELL rats during the Civil War, orgets horsewhipped by an attorney, the best face is put on the event, or it ...

THE GOVERNING FAMILIES OF ENGLAND

... impartiality in their estimates of the characters and achievements of families. The wind is perhaps a little tempered sometimes to Whig lambs. If a RUSSELL rats during the Civil War, or gets horsewhipped by an attorney, the best face is put on the event, or it ...

THE HOLY LAND

... of our readers will recognize the name of this young and liberal Protestant pastor, who was found to be too liberal by the Whigs of French Protestantism, but who has nevertheless a considerable following. He needed a holiday; and being occupied with a ...

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 ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... 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 ...

LITERATURE

... Statistical Review. By H. S. SKEATS. Arthur MialL The Irish Church figured very prominently in the speeches and writings of the Whigs twenty years ago. Leaders of parties and great organs of opi- nion treated its existence as an injustice and an affront to ...

LITERATURE

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