... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... as his grand faculty of picturesque and flowing ocr-position. If tbe tone of the history- is some- e what too much that of a whig partan, this h a'so was to be looked for in a politician whose -lite- e ralism had always been understood to have run a co ...

... 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 ...

... sovereignty of the people, he points out that this meant sovereignty of the third estate by right of numbers. In England the Whig, who had found in aristocracy the effectual barrier against royal oppression, would desert his principles if W~e adopted the ...