... practical nation like this should avoid more than another it is theories of ideal perfection. We believe aa a party, with the great Whig writer, Lord Grey, that the very anomalies of our constitution—those which are called defects in the constitution —are not ...

... political soldier; he had entered with all his heart into the battle for Reform ; and from that time forward he held in the great Whig army a place, if not of command, yet of trust and of influence. Perhaps no man was better acquainted than he with the secret ...