... Near Craywich also resided the Langhornes, a family once of some consequence, but now in rapid decadence, and as bitterly Whig in principle as the Aldersons were Tory to the core. George Langhorne was a clever, ambitious lad of nineteen, noticeable in ...

... coalition was for a long time possible between the Whigs and the Canningites ; and when these reasons had almost disappeared the only medium of communication with the Oppo- sition leaders was no longer in the Whig camp. Lord Grenville had retired from public ...

... suggested within the succeeding hundred years. Finally it was tried in the Corn- prehension scheme of x689, which our best Whig historians, Barnet, Hallam, and Macaulay, are agreed in considering as happily frustrated. Certainly, had it succeeded, it ...

... first had the misfortune to differ with his friends, and embarked on the vexed sea of politics in his pamphlet attacking the Whig sympathy with the Turks. What the event was which corresponded to the shipwreck wherein all the men perished but himself ...