... Tory Government. Marlborough and Godolphin were fast friends. They were in principle neither Whigs nor Tories; that is to say, they neither sympathized with the Whig oligarchy nor yet with the party of divine right and ecclesiastical intolerance. Their object ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... we can hardly exaggerate their importance. It is true that he had quarrelled with the Whigs when this fragminnt was composed. But he had not quarrelled with the Whigs when he first resolved to side with George III. ; for he had never had any connection ...

... true also of the whole Whig party. And it is more probable, as Dr. Ranke points out in his recently published History of England, that the dis- missal of the Duchess was only one part of that general design for breaking down the Whig domination which was ...

... understands no deviation from a once authenticated line of thought and action; he will not recognise the Whig who turns Tory or the Tory who turns Whig: he believes that a man should keep steadfastly to one course,-not in obstinacy, but because of a very ...

... the prevailing feeling, both among the moderate Whigs and the great mass of the Tories. Sir Henry Hardinge told Sir James Graham that he supposed we should all go out the next morning. Many of the Whigs thought it impossible the Government could succeed ...

... tragedlaii's belief in any distinctive coldness of our Niorthern people ns compared with their Southern countrymen. The Sortlhern W'hig, of the saene date, remarks that Mr Barry Sullivan, who is one of the Christmas institutions of the town, and one of the most ...

... the Prince of Orange he again changed sides without scruple: threw off his Tory principles, and became a vigorous and active Whig. He was one of the three Commissioners sent to London to offer the Scottish Crown to William, and returned to Scotland as Lord ...

... signed a protest against affirming the validity of all the Acts done by the Convention Parliament, which was ordered by the Whigs to be obliterated, a precedent being found in the obliteration by the House of all the proceedings in the trial of Lord Strafford ...

... 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 ...

... all our great measures encountered objections From the Liberal party-split into four sections: The Rump of Gladstonians, the Whigs with their fads, Persistent Home Rulers, and resolute Rads. Sure such trouble no Premier ere met with before, For instead ...