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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 ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... extended representation of the working classes, either by lowering the present general franchise, as was proposed by the late Whig Government, to 7f., or by creating for them a special franchise, analogous to that possessed by the English and Irish Universities ...

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 ...

Literature

... twenmyper cent. Twenty per cent., Twenty per cent., Nous frapperons Falol with twenty per cent. As a specimen of a squib on the Whig side, we may refer to Macaulay's Country Clergyman's Trip to Cambridge to vote at the election against Catholic Emancipation ...

Literature

... to get him into parliament. Percy, who is young and ambitious, is naturally delighted; until he learns that he isto go as a whig candidate to a close tory borough; and to oppose, without the slightest notice and by means of the most scandalous and unblushing ...

Literature

... rhetoric of Sir Archibald Alison. The excellent rhetoric and special pleading of Lord Macaulay afford intense pleasure to the true whig. According to ?? catholic, Lingard's volumes contain the whole truth, For the seeker after au- thenticated facts there is no ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... the shape If -a Whig view of Mr Fox's career. But he does auch more than that. Aided by the political experience hat comes of a long life nobly spent in fighting battles ad effecting triumphs that have only been Whig battles ad Whig triumphs in so far ...

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. ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... pleasant to listeu to and seemed tuned to his natural courtesy, and that courtesy greatly de- veloped by his intercourse with the Whigs-tbe most noted of courtiers -served him greatly in his official life and carried him through many a difficulty. His face and ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... taking; that is, the assumption of self-government by the great body o1 the people has begun to render it imp possible for Whig and Tory landholders to play at football with the national weklih and the national interests. As a remedial measure, Mr Todd ...

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 ...