... as in some degree preserving Mr. Disraeli's political consistency, that he avowed himself a deter- mined opponent of the Whigs, and tried to carry the seat by a combination of the Radicals of the borough with the Tories. His agent was a Tory attorney ...

... a higher political world capable of appreciating that genius and ability when young, and of learning from it when old. The Whig party, such as it was in those days especially, rested on this parliamentary power. In them was a combination of more or less ...

... The time has not come to undo the lessons of our history and call black white, that our old Radicals may be de- mbied, and Whigs and Tories immortalised. The times of which Mr. Lovett, now seventy-six years ofae, writes, were very dark times for poor men ...

... may be, Swift's most influential introduction to the Whig circle at least was a political pamphlet entitled Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome,?' in which he warned the Whigs and the Tories, by the example of the ancient states ...

... economy. It is not impossible that the bias of the Whigs to a liberal commercial policy may date from this acquaintance, and Shelburne certainly set the example, so successfully imitated by other Whig patricians, of making his house the resort of men of ...

... borough of Preston under peculiar circumstances-appearing with Sir Henry Hoghton as the nominees of the Earl of Derby, the great Whig peer of the neighbourhood, in opposition to the Tory candidates, Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Frank Standish, supported by the ...

... etiier a done her one service by causing her mind to bJ thoroughly imbued with Liberal principles during his intiacly with the Whigs. After his apostacy he would iuy have undone his avov*, but the Princess, with whom the spirit of contradiction was always ...

... letter, Mr. Crook, I would not have winked my eye. Take your twenty pounds, and don't bother me for another year. A rub for the Whigs, this time! Under this teacher Abel had learned to read better and faster than the vicar would have quite approved-for the ...

... anding with Sir Robert Peel, the matter becomes a party, almost a national, question; the Tories immediately cut him, the Whigs as promptly take him up. Eminent statesmen, erroneously deemed intent on public affairs, are really absorbed in Machiavellian ...

... Charles Lamb comes very well out of the revelation of Godwin's necessities, and the sources from which he derived assistance. The Whig leaders were most liberal to him, Lord Holland subscribing 1001. to start him as a bookseller, and several others sending in ...

... clear. It seems that Lord Grey wished to form a sort of Coalition ministry, having representative reform as its basis. The Whigs had been so long out of office that they doubted their ability to keep office by their own unaided strength, and Lord Grey ...

... mistakes for the Dominie Sampsons of the novelist, and their wives for the menial waiting-women of his own time. Even Locke, Whig and philosopher as he was, did not sit at the same table with his aristocratic and liberal patron. He ate with the chaplain ...