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CHARLES JAMES FOX

... the chosen representative of Whig principles, and one to whom the traditions of the elders must have descended in their full integrity. No man in the whole world probably is so well qualified in these respects to write a Whig view of Mr. Fox's career -which ...

SCRAPS FROM THE COMIC PERIODICALS

... Farewell Performances-Auch Ado About Nothing. THE Conservatives always boasted that they were tbe true economists, and not tne Whigs. They have proved it this session, for immediately the tailors' strike began they 1a0t no time in learning how to turn their ...

Literature

... self converted. Generally, however, his course was that of a moderate whig, though certainly not a party whig; and it is singular that in his old age he .became the victim of a whig intrigue,whici is thus Idenounced by Lord Brougham: I It was not by mere ...

THE REFORM ACT OF 1832

... had been still further stimulated in lursuit of political changes by the dethronement of Charles X. By all these events the Whigs profited in proportion. Theyhad, as was suppoted, once more a king upon the throne not averse to the policy of Reform; the ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... Thomas Danvers, a brave, drinking, hunting, duelling, King's right, D.i grzit man, and his wife Penelope, a stanch Puritanical Whig lady, who feasted, in the absence of her husband from home, Monmouth on his short road to the block, and always fasted on the ...

SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS

... Haymarket, a magnificent piece of plate-the testimonial from Liberal M.P.'s of both Houses of Parliament to Mr. Brand, the late Whig whipper-in. The testimonial is a splendid centre-piece, consisting of a very large plateau, 51 feet long, with silver border ...

Published: Sunday 01 December 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1242 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HISTORICAL CHARACTERS

... tergiversatio115 how he began as a Jacobin, turned Antijacobin, accepted place from the Tories, then got into Parliament as a Whig, and ended his days as a kind of comprehensive, eclectic philosopher-all this was well known in its day, and is pretty nearly ...

Mr. Charles Dillon at Sheffield

... have so often said before. His frst piece received a warm encore and a iecall, and his second piece a double encore and a ?? Whig, Tuesday, Apfil 2d. ULSTER HALL MotD.AY POPULAcR CONCErTs. - Yesterday evening Paganini Redivivus made his last appearance ...

Published: Sunday 05 May 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1364 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... n to the English repreo sentative working men who might be delegated to Paris. -'But the English government, whether it be whig or tory, will not place itself in any way at the disposal of even properly qualified representatives of the working class. ...

HISTORY OF HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

... by Sir John Vanbrngh. It was raised by thirty person of rank, principally of the Whig party, if we may judge by their inscribing the first stone with the words Little Whig, in compliment to Lady Sutherland, a celebrated beauty of the day. The money ...

Published: Sunday 15 December 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3655 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... to the electors of High Wycom'be. fer. Disraeli was snppornad, at first, by a combination of Radicals and Tories against the Whig candidate; but the former, discovering that his Radi. calism was something veyy different fromn their own, deserted hire at ...

EDMUND BURKE

... Of the political movements of the last century we have a clear and forcible exposition, showing how the-- assumption of the Whigs of the Revolution that the destiny of the Country was to be governed by a select number of patrician families was followed ...