... company—there were about sixty of them altogether--was a prominent and leading man in his State. Many of them belonged to the old Whig party, and consequently were former friends of Mr. Seward's, and they were all received with the dry pleasantry and plain speech ...

... gravely, greatly, and straightforwardly, like Englishmen, like the man himself, let England mourn him. But we today, Tory or Whig, Radical or Conservative, High Churchmen, or Low Churchmen, purists or men of the world, Henry John Temple has earned this ...