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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE CROWN AND ITS ADVISERS

... description. He divides them into Conservatives and Liberals, and subdivides each into Tories and Liberal-Conservatives, and into Whigs and Radicals. Now, if all that is meant by this is that there is a moderate and an extreme section in each party, it is of ...

LORD RUSSELL ON THINGS IN GENERAL*

... thse Try ?? w\iecthem hie wvorld take thle same view of'he tmaterifa LonservativeGoern inemit shotihl ever have to' threaten a Whig majority in ?? ne crelavions. W~ill, however, remain in tile minds of somec ajoghsraesa olpef question. Coming bache to the ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1870
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1570 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROFESSOR PRYME

... His life was long and fully occupied. For some years after the Reform Bill he was member for Cambridge, and acted as a steady Whig of the old school. His great pride, however, seems to have been in the part which he took in introducing the study of political ...

MUSIC

... obtained, politically speaking, a more congenial ally in Dr. Brewei. Mr. lebow was 71 years of age; he was a Liberal of the old Whig type, but he had gradually won the respect of his political opponents in addition to the esteem of his political friends. ...