Help organising your research by adding bookmarking your articles. You can review your Bookmarks in the Saved area. *
* We take your privacy seriously. Bookmarks and notes are personal to you and are not public.
... THE WHIG Vi In a theoretical point of view Whiggery is the weakest of all political doctrines ; and yet, strange as it may seem, it is to this very circumstance that the Whigs, asa party, owe no small share of their practical success, and that the Con- ...
... illogical character of his belief that a Whig, as such, cannot reason and live ; for the moment he attempts it his Whig life goes out of him, and a Radical or a Conservative spirit carries him off aa its own. Old Whigs are quite aware of this condition of ...
... Sir Francis Baring, the Whig ex-Chancellor the Exchequer, is to be elevated to the peerage under the title of Lord Northbrook. A similar honour will be conferred upon Sir John Romilly, the Master of the Rolls, who will enter the Upper House with the title ...
... [from punch.] THE WHIGS OF AULD LAN'G SYNE (The Premier and the Nevt seers.) Should auld supporters ' o rgot, And never brought m Should auld Whigs remembered not By Whigs of syne ? * old lang syne, my friends, For auld lang syne ; We'll ye baith peerage ...
... view ; Let but Numbers and Noise the ascendancy gain, And then both Whigs and Tories, on Salisbury Plain, W ill lie down, down, -all of you down Blackwood's Magazine, January. THE WHIGS OF AULD LANG SYNE. (The Premier and the New Peers.) Should auld supporters ...
... note. These Whigs, old family nestors, ignore 1 the fact that the world of politics moved ; and far worse than the man who enjoyed the honour, did all they could to stultify opinion. They knew no higher aspiration than the family circle of Whig convenience ...
... to forget that Lord 8ToN was a Whig—tor we had been co long accus- tomed to the spectec'e of men promoted according to their true deserts, that it was not unnatural we should forget Lord nominal connection with the Whig party, Now, however, a change has ...
... of Baron North brook : When the PcGlites consorted with the Whigs, a place could not be found for Sir Francis, and he retired to that classic fourth bench behind the ministers to which a Whig Premier in want of colleague has so long been accustomed to ...
... you can see at a glance that things are going wrong, and have gone wrong for some time. A Whig Journal on Ministerial Prospects. The Morning Post tells the Whigs not to despair. A Pharaoh has arisen, who at any rate does know his own Josephs, and he has ...
... instinctively attribute the same genial attributes. Except the late Lord Melbourne and, probably, the great Whig leader, Mr. Fox, the leading Whigs have never been personally genial men ; and even Lord Melbourne's light and witty sayings, though they had ...
... B.'ght. Wbo on the Honse of Commons floor Deaouuc'd the Whigs in langnaje sore, For throwing their Reform Bill o'er ?— John Bright. - But, tho' with them he's now delighted, . Who by the Whigs ia coldly slighted, And has noi been to place invited ?— ...