LITERATURE

... and its tone is ad- O.W mirable. We quote the following, to show the estimate put st upon the Itbours of men of genius by Whig lordlings :- L Qhen Lord Melbourne was In office, Faraday waited npon him at t re 'ireasury (by his request, as we heard though ...

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 ...

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 ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... in fact, till the commence. ment of the present century, been believed in and aup- ported by the Tories and opposed by the Whigs. In many other points of policy, Mr. Baxter shows that the great Conservative party of this country has always been in favour ...

LITERATURE

... his facts from Parliament- ary debates or other original documents ; and from the works of the greateot and most impartial Whig writers- as the histories of Mr. Hallarr, the essays of Lord Macaulay, the reviews of Sir George Cornewall ILewisI and the ...

LITERATURE

... Baxter traces the lead- Aig questiolls of internal progress during the last two cen- .'lllios, *hd the courses taken by the Whigs and Tories re- -,kcwilg thema ; and shows by what mistake the Tories descellded from the commanding position which they had ...

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 

LORD RUSSELL'S SPEECHES

... which it was originally caused. The present House of Lords is to a great extent the creation of Pitt and his successors, If Whigs and Tories had taken their turns of office in more equal propor- tions, the new peers introduced by one Minister would have ...

LITERATURE

... urevilirrf feiact. it both among the moderate Whigs and the grcat mass of a the Tories. Sir Henry Harding told Sir James Graham ci that he supposed we should all go out the next morning. e Mlany of the Whigs thoughtit impossible the Government 0 could succeed ...

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 ...

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

... with certainly numberless poetical beauties. Milton was a Whig, Ul end, in my mind, an Atheist C.) I am persuaded bis Poem L was composed to apologize for the Devil, who certainly was the first Whig on record. A Cynic appears as the author of an exceouingiy ...