... century. We do not believe it of them. Conservatives when out of office wish to get in, and the Whigs may be spoken of in the same style. The modern Whig is nothing more than a weak-minded Tory; hence, between them it is more a battle for the dignity ...

... some of them voted for Tories and others for Whigs, and, so far as voting wrong was concerned, they could not do worse than the present electors, half of whom voted for Tories, and the remainder for Whigs, and as only one party could be right, the working ...

... that, had the Bill been allowed to pass into committee, Mr. Disraeli would have submitted to aa or £7 borough franchise. The Whigs were alarmed lest the reform bread should be taken out of their mouths, and called the Willis' Rooms meeting. * The Tories ...

... we can never think without recalling Dryden's description of them, as— Neither fish, nor flesh, por good red herring, Nor Whigs or Tories they, nor this nor that, Nor birds, nor beasts, but just a kind of bat— A twilight animal, true to neither cause ...

... be unfair—though it is necessary for Mr. Bright's position as against Lord Derby's party—to say that it is the Tories. The Whigs are just as much to blame. But though the weapon cannot be made use of by either of the great parties, it is exceedingly powerful ...

... must take what he said at its true worth, just as so much Buncombe. Ile knows well enough that it was not the Tories but the Whigs who. plunged us into the last war, and the former are no more likely to. aid Prussia than the latter are. What he said was ...