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DOCTOR JOHNSON.*

... does; but to deny that he was a bigot could hardly occur to any creature who has read of his furious, unreasoning hatred of Whigs, his furious, unreasoning hatred of Dissent,. and of a good many other things, men, and principles as well. We know- iot how ...

LITERARY

... Edin- burgh Review, there is in the correspondence of the Man of Feeling some amusing evidence of the effect produced in Whig circles by the terrible infant Blackiwood's 3laga- 7ine, and the famous Chaldee Manuscript. It is to be hoped that some ...

WILKES, SHERIDAN, AND FOY.*

... political situation a hundred years ago is not materially different from that of the orthodox Whigs, though some casual phrases here and there show that Mr. Rae is a Whig and something more. It is still well to do anything to draw the attention of new generations ...

THE DEAN AND THE DRAMA

... again appeared to receive tlse evidently sincere aelciiovledg~nseltstsof the large asid deep~lyinipiressed ?? tisc Nor hmesmn Whig, Jantuary I5tha 1374. A Theatrical Contract. Mr r. T. Barn-tun, who is now ie this country, lees just entered into at contract ...

Published: Sunday 18 January 1874
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1822 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... LegiSletion. YoU have never vel Snown anything in IEungland but class legislation, it has bcen the Whigs against the Tories, and the Tories against the Whigs, and both against the people. 1 alrsost hecsitate to pronounce this word People. it has been sO ...

THE FIRST LORD MINTO.*

... consequence was the great breach in the Whig party. Sir Gilbert Elliott's correspondence is full of the most interesting particulars of the histwy of the negotiations between Pitt and the section known as the Portland Whigs for a coalition. Eiliott had great ...

LITERARY

... Liberal Party, however, is the principal political contribution, being a brilliant sequel to Lord Salisbury's Appeal to the Whigs in the October number. The most important literary articles are based on Mrs Somner- ville's ' Personal Recollections,' and ...

Scraps

... colour is Conservative and what colour is Liberal. We may reply that it is not very easy to answer this question offhand. The Whig toast at one period was Buffand blue, and Mrs. Crewe, and when the Edinburgh Review appeared in 1802 it indicated its Liberal ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1874
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2786 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY

... consistent opponent of Parliamentary supremacy. He conciliated the hitherto irreconcilable Jacobites, but he alienated the Whigs, who had been labouring so hard to build up constitutional free- dom upon the basis of the bloodless revolution. De- scribing ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... or morals; and even Tory counsellors shrunk from cuopporting a man %:ho was sai6 to be a fast liver and a Tres tbinker. The Whigs started an excellent rival, Sir Wlilam lanilton, and the coitcst was very keen. I vrd like to rie ye ma vote, Mr. Wuts3n, ...

LITERARY

... circumstances; the difficulty was eventually removed by the judicious mediation of the Duke of Wellington. The advent of the Whigs to power made Denman Attorney-General, and he found himself obliged, in his turn, to appear as the prosecutor of rural and ...

LITERARY

... subsequently enlarges upon the dissensions in the Liberal party, and of course takes the view which com- mends itself to a Whig. Mrs W. Grey has a very able paper on the Idols of Society - idols which are wont to obstruct the path of those who seek ...