... of the Whigs, he had a yet warmer admiration of their conduct during their forty years of opposition ? Is he really unaware that a suspicion of the same nature as that which attaches to the Radicals, but of older origin, once attached to the Whigs for their ...

... intolerable to his tameless spirit that there should be imputed to him any degree of subordina- tion to the leader of the Whigs, and he exultingly hastened to reply to Lord Iartington's notice in the stately epistolary style in which Flood and Grattan ...

... two respectable and inconspicuous Whigs, one a Protestant, and the other a Catholic. At the general election of i865, when Liberalism began to stir, one of the seats was still retained by the moderate Catholic Whigs, but the other fell to Mr. Maguire ...

... from i8x9 to I826 the Whigs did not touch the Reform question, quite overlooking his own great speech in I822. The mistake of the reviewer, however, if any at all, was in the implied statement that in i8i9 and in 1826 the Whigs did adopt the question ...

... adherence to the original conditions of the atrocity movement a desertion of the Liberal party by the old Whigs. The secession of the old Whigs, not from the Liberal party but from the straggling and dwindling train which follows Mr. GLADSTONE, is to ...

... from the new Whigs to the old, and we know, too, that what he did for the one Lord Macaulay attempted for the other. As Burke was the literary champion of the Whigs of the English Revolution, Macaulay was the literary champion of the Whigs of the French ...

... history to be an illusion. Without going the length of Lord Stanhope's assertion that the Whig of to-day answers to the Tory, and the Tory of to-day to the W-hig of Queen Anne's reign, Professor Seeley argues with much force that the mere possibility of ...

... regarded in its day as bold to the verge of recklessness, had not been in the least expected from the stately chiefs of the old Whig houses, who, according to the unanimous statement of all contem- porary writers, were thought at first to have irrevocably ...

... generation of politicians, from their personal recollections, are at least plausible. The country, they say, which had followed the Whig Government into Parliamentary Reform with tumultuous and all but universal enthusiasm, became startled at its own temerity ...

... Liberalism. As was pointed out the other day by a correspondent, the true Whig ecclesiastical policy was the discouragement of sacer- dotalism within the Church. This was the principle of Whig promotion to preferment in the last century and in this-of the elevation ...

... damaging to the Whigs; and there is good reason to believe that if the King had lived, and dissolved again, as he would have done, in 1838, the reaction would have been complete. But it would have been chiefly due to a belief that the Whigs would stick ...

... popular imagination, of a mild and patriarchal Whig. But few perhaps remember that he was the son of one statesman, and the connection of another, who are best known to history by their opposition to the Whig families; that Lord Shelburne in particular, ...