THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE.*

... 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 ...

LORD RUSSELL.*

... 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 ...

LORD SHELBURNE

... 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, ...

LORD SHELBURNE.*

... 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 ...

LITERARY GOSSIP

... delightful book, but they will not lead to the ht appointment of the octogenarian Whig as Leader of the Liberal party-although it must be ad.] ermitted that, old as he is, Whig as he is, and deaf a as he is, he would be a better leader than Lord po to HarLington ...

SARAH DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.*

... 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 ...

THE LATE LIGHT OF THE BAR

... at par, ioe n 'Tixt .iohn bitohel nd him, this late Light of the liar. So boldly he entered the High Cemmnuo~' hall, Atnong Whigs, lands, Conservatives, aliens all, While calm, cold, and cutting, the Speaker was heard, Sarough the silence, unbroken by cneer ...

LITERATURE

... 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 ...

LITERATURE

... 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 ...

BARRY SULLIVAN IN BELFAST

... 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 ...

Published: Sunday 03 January 1875
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

New Novels

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1418 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

From Fun

... what you have to unfold. Will you give us a hint of the glories That your hand on our Arms will bestow ? Do you favour the Whigs or the Tories ? We are really most anxious to know. -Will our ships go to sea overladen ? Will our soldiers be properly paid ...