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EARL STANHOPE'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND

... under any cir- cumstances. The infatuation of the Whig leaders made its return to power inevitable. Since the Queen's accession a combination of Whigs and Tories had governed the country with success. The Whigs had now determined that this system should be ...

ANNALS OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE

... most women she wa's a Whig ; wonl, tak Toryism naturally, as ducklings to the vater. Bt r aunt was a Whig from family and principle. AU the M clevilles had been Jacobites and Tories, the 1ralfaere5 al been pure Whigs. Pure Whigs-think of that a-a thi ...

LITERATURE

... say; but the chief character of the ?? Belmore-is obviously, in some respects, the fictitious counterpart of a cele- brated Whig Lord who, some sixty years ago, used to gather about him, at his old suburban mansion, all the wits, poets, essayists, and ...

Literature

... intelligence of the present day. The Radical t faction is only powerful in proportion as it is helped by Whig support. There are Whigs and Whigs, Liberals and Liberals, as there are Tories and Torles. It is for the prudent and sensible of these various ...

Poetry

... fuel, Mr. Playfair won t catch me at hazard or whist, 'Mr. Coward was winged in a duel. Mr. Wise is a daunce, Mr. King is a whig, Mr. Coffin's uncommonly sprightly, -And huge Mr. Little broke down isna gig, While driving fat Mr. Golightly. Mrs. Drinkwater's ...

WHITESIDE'S SKETCHES

... are remarkable. Seven out of his ten portraits are those of well-known politicians, and six out of the seven are or were Whigs, yet we see a careful attempt to do justice to all of them, and only two, namely Lord Grey and Lord Abinger, .seem to us to ...

LITERATURE

... preserving, iastead of' deetroying, is true Conservatism, on whichever side its ,adeecates mnay sit, asid by whatever names of' Whig or Toery they ettay he celled. After dividing the por'tico in the Stats into four, which be. calls the High 'Tories, or, its ...

Published: Sunday 20 February 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3428 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BAKER'S HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

... ledged. In his literary generosity he knew no dis- tinctions of party. Though a Tory of the most un- compromising kind, the Whig Bishop Burnet, in the preface to the third volume of his History of the Reformation, wrote of him thus :- A gentleman in ...

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

... naturally ri calls most vividly those acts self-reliance in which was most truly himself, —how he differed from the leading Whigs in identifying himself heart and soul with the Spaniards and the Duke of Wellington in the strife against Napoleon ; how he ...

THE SCOTTISH MINSTREL

... Everybody knows the rollicking Tullochgoram of John Skinner:- Let Whig and Tory all agree. Whig and Tory, Wldig and Tory, Wing and Tory all agree, To drop their Wig-nmig-moraen. Let Whig and Tory all agree To spend the night wi mirth and glee, And cheerfa' ...

THE FASHIONS FOR MARCH

... efficient working class organization for electoral purposes in that borough, for protecting labour againstthe triclks and plots of Whigs dnd Tories, planned to keep out working men from entering parliament, and considers this ana nrgent question for the imnmediato ...

SIR HENRY BULWER'S LIFE OF LORD PALMERSTON.*

... the work remains uncompleted. In the present instalment of it the career of Lord Palmerston is followed to the fall of the Whig Administration in 184L. It comprises therefore only the subordinate portion of his public life But it carries us through the ...