... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...