... “stupid”;—meekly stupid when she was in a good humour; sulkily stupid when she was in bad one. In her reign the Tories dished the Whigs” by insulting and, when they could, by punishing their friends the dissenters. A bid was carried which provided that magistrates ...

... cases, and if proved to be true would publish them in the National Reformer. The people had too long been the shuttlecock of Whigs and Tories, who knocked them from battle-door to battledoor, until their pockets were emptied, when both sides helped themselves ...