... against King James, for civil and religious freedom ; remember the example of our forefathers, bishops, and barons, and good old Whigs, who always looker to ancient landmarks, clung to the fundamental principles, held fast ancient charters, and so built up our ...

... proposal at first generally excited, to have it at once thrown overboard. But there was no help for it, the Lower world and the Whigs were too strong for the Conservatives, and so in the midst of an unparalled scene, of violence and deceit, due to a furious ...

... and jobbery which made the word Whig to stink in England, and compelled a convicted party to adopt another name. I recollect that at Lord Amberley's Tavistock meeting, some speaker referred to the blunders of the Whigs. The Viscount in reply got entangled ...

... that Pitt the Tory, and Fox the Whig, assisted by Clarkson Wilberforce and Sharp. were great advocates for it, and in 1810 Brougham brought his eloquence to bear upon the question; but it was not until after the Whig Reform Bill of 1832. that the ...