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LITERATURE

... , that. is a candid political history of the days of the Grenvilles,, the Pitts, and of the sweay of the great overbearing whig families. i!hia history is now put 'within reach of the poorest book otub. Australia for tbe Consumptive Invalid 2B an 2xoellent ...

LITERATURE

... There re 27 eases still to be dis- plosed of, but the number may he increasedi indefinitely by fresh arrests. We (Nortthern Whig) believe weD are right inr sttingthat one, at Sleast, if not more, of the Dablin deteo-t tiveeha arriived in town in pursuit ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... above a hundred Parliament men who drink October beer meet to consult affairs and drive things on to extremes against the Whigs; the Saturday Club, of which Swift was a mem- ber, although he grumbled at the number of its members and the weakness of ...

CONSTITUTIONALISM OF THE FUTURE.*

... deal with it. The Radical, he says, is the most successful in his answer; he denies that inequality is a fact of nature. The Whig hesitates between Radical equality and Conservative exclusion. The Conservative believes in order alone, without recognizing ...

THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT

... Fleecing the millions, and keeping them down, To feather their nests, and to prop up the Crown. These class logisitors, the Whigs and the Tories, However divided, still always agree; It is their ambition, and highest of glories, To crush down the people ...

CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.*

... are now. But they are written in a slovenly style, and betray a strong party spirit. We see in them the old Whig in all his glory: the Whig of those days when there were but two parties in the State, and but two recognized sets of principles; and when ...

COURT AND FASHION

... considering the sacrifices he has made in sup- port of his party. But as these are naturally anything but virtues in the eyes of a Whig Government, we find no fault with their not elevating him to the Peerage. We cannot, however, acquit the present Government ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 1866
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1530 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Festivities at Park House, Ryde

... chosens. Mrs. A. Ewving performed thle port of Emnily with cerroelsieso and judg- moent. Vivian Wnbber, Esq., with a whlite whig, msade a very good represenotative of Mr. Surplus. hf. Slode, Esq.. showved by his good acting ill thle part of Chor les Surplus ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 1866
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 753 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MR. GRANTLEY BERKELEY.*

... the room, who are described in terms of graceful circumlocution; as, for example, a forensic star of the first magnitude, a Whig leader possessed of great popularity and of scientific acquiremdents of a high order. No one could mistake that marked phy ...

THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST REFORM BILL.*

... would have been justified; for the small number of Mr. Canning's personal followers who might have )referred uniting with the Whigs to combining heartily with the Duke of W1'ellington would have made but a slight impression on the power of the Tory party ...

MARY STUART.*

... eighteenth century a hearty admiration of George Buchanan, or even a too marked zeal for the Reformation, was the sign of a Whig. By degrees, however, as jacobitism waned, the inquiry came to be treated more as a purely historical one. Hume, though a Torv ...

Literature

... of other men receives many illustrations in this volume, as in all that he writes. Mr. Maurice does not hold the essentially whig idea of Lord Macaulay that English his- tory, truly understood, has its commence- ment with the reign of King John; nor does ...