... as we do that there have been Whigs and Tories, trider various aopellations, ever since the world began, and although we do not wish to imitate his acrimony by stating the name (according to Dr. Johnson) of the first Whig, we cannot admit that one party ...

... unnecessary pain. We should have liked Whig Reviewers, as Painted by Them- selves, in B'lackwood better, but for a certain self-righteousness of tone that pervades the article. See, it seems to say, how these Whig-Radicals of the Edinbiaghz hated each ...

... real and fictitious, belong to the period of the story -the reign of William the Third-in something more than in name. His Whigs and Jacobites are men of the time, with all the prejudicec, political and social, of that troubled period, and lastly his dialogue ...

... the policy of carping and cavilling, depreciation of English successes, and prophecies of English failures, pursued by the Whig Opposition under Lords Grey and Holland, and Tierney, Romilly, and Brougham, throughout the Peninsular War. The sketch, we ...

... thirty and odd years of English history, present a careful, and in some respects, perhaps, a slightly novel portrait of the Whig Premier of Queen Victoria's earlier years, from the pen of one who knew and loved him well. The chief who led so long the proudest ...

... leading article in Fraser appears to be written for the purpose of inducing the Orangemen to desert the Tories and join the Whigs. Though -he prints the paper, Mr. Froude in a note advises the Orange. men to do nothing of the kind so long as English Liberalism ...

... in for some vigorous vitu- peration. The book teems with stinging sarcasms. Take the words of Sir Everard Dijby, the great Whig lawyer, to the protegi lie is plotting to betray and throw aside, Consider that by this arrangement you escape the discredit ...

... , he thinks, has shown that if it is wanted to rescue a seat from a Tory, a Radical is more likely to be successful than a Whig.-In The Musical Culture of the Day, Mr. H-. 11. Statham seeks to inquire whether the passion for music in modern English ...

... consider either of them as thinker or as artist entitled to rank with the greatest names of the world ? -In Liberals and Whigs Mr. George Brodrick utters an energetic protest against that dissolution of partnership between the two sections of the party ...

... Morley, himself of republican and free-thinking tendencies, takes a fair middle course. Contrary to what may be styled the Whig view of the revolutionary epoch, namely that where the French had one or more courses open to them, they invariably chose the ...

... thinking that any premature efforts towards Confederation would do more harm than good, but at the same time we rejoice that the Whig idea of treating colonies as troublesome encum- brances, to be got rid of as soon as possible, is no longer fashion- able. ...

... complicated campaigns of Marlborough, or Peterborough's eccentric flashes of genius -at home the struggles for power* between Whig and ITory in Parliament and country, the secret influences at siork at the Court, the dominant figures of statesman, wits, ...