... himself little or nothing in common. Yet who would class his intensities of historical and critical colouring with the virulent Whig partisanship of a writer like Macaulay, or the Radical untruthfulness of sundry other picturesque historians still living amongst ...

... the local bishops of England, or France or America. M. De Mon talembert was, ecclesiastically, an old- fashioned aristocratic Whig. The Ultra- montanes, whom he came to detest so cordially, are votaries of Cassarism in the Church. He wanted to retain the ...

... bill is gone. Buff and Blue we believe those houses still are and probably no man will ever witness the unnatural sight of a Whig Cabinet dining at the Ship or a Conservative at the Trafalgar. But as to any real competition between them for the patronage ...