... and even if a less violent phrase is used, it would be idle to pretend that Swift was actuated solely by public motives. The Whigs had neglected him; and their ingratitude had unquestionably much to do with his readi- ness in accepting the overtures of Harley ...

... tristis Orestes. Their Tories are mere hot-headed, no-surrender men, all alike; their Radical is a mere wandering voice; their Whig simply a melancholy prey of the Fates, condemned to strike the blow at his mother, Privilege. The feudal Toryism of Everard ...

... never to have forgiven his master for the part which he played on this occasion. The Ministry was made up of Chathamites, Whigs, and King's friends, and on Shelburne fell the whole labour of maintaining the influence of the first: The representative ...

... bad the saame rirrht. What . s th e commander to do with themr, especially if the frigate was a ,a all one ? Of course, the Whig captain would treat them well, possibly '.le thcrm dry champagne. The slaves would not work at all. In fact, cley took Mickey ...

... whom he did not rate highly- as a statesman; and, fourthly, he thought it would not look well, after having acted with the Whigs for twenty-two years and gained all his political reputation under their banner, to go slap over to the opposite camp, merely ...

... Gambetta's organ yesterday contained a leading article as full of sage reflections as if the writer were a veteran English Whig. The Monarchists will, of course, doubt the sincerity of this Republican modesty in the hour of triumph; but the very utterance ...

... impracticable on any tolerable conditions. An earlier chapter of history had pointed the moral of the discredit into which the Whigs under Lord MELBOURNE fell as a consequence of their relations with the O'Connellite tail. Only the other day the country ...

... sleedily fall to pieces. I received this morning bAC visit of a newly ?? Republican deputy who would make a (oliral Englis.h Whig, and who told me that he objected to full lcity of the press and of public meeting as not being suited to the fiery characters ...

... bonnie woods and braes a population very difficult to deal with, composed as it was of the descendants of the old Westland Whigs, who still cherished traditions of Drumclog and Bothwell Brigg, and of the free-thinking Chartist-websters of Newmilns. Gang ...

... majority is more Radical than it seems, and is certainly aware that to a large section of his supporters the appointment of a Whig Government following such a Liberal victory at the elections is a disappoint- ment. But he must, before all men, be aware of ...

... majority is more Radical than it seems, and is certainly aware that to a large section of his supporters the appointment of a Whig Government following such a Liberal victory at the elections is a disappoint- ment. But he must, before all men, be aware of ...

... these points. At all events, we see that so early as i833 Macaulay had begun to doubt whether he could continue to act with the Whig party, and this was one of his reasons for accepting the appointment in India. And again, in .1852, he declined to join Lord ...