... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... to the demonstration as significant, of the popu- larity of the Prince and the unbounded loyalty of the people. But as both Whig and Tory Governments have persistently refised to ex- tend that clemency shown to the chiefs of the rebellion to their humble ...

... 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 ...

... success. Tho teat of the popular hatred'of Popery and wooden hoes'! could hardly.have been more. tevcre ti'an it was when Whig prineiples came to be' reprsented in the person' of an uncouth Germau King who spoke no, English.. Yet the very tactis -of ...

... 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 ...

... complicated campaigns of Marlborough, or Peterborough's eccentric flashes of genius -at home the struggles for power* between Whig and ITory in Parliament and country, the secret influences at siork at the Court, the dominant figures of statesman, wits, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... executioner or the gaoler of either of the emperors; and it was that belief whihli lcd the countryfrom one ead of it to the other-Whigs, Tories, ladicals-to applaud and back up the deaisucewhich, by onradviceandoursquadrou, we flung in the teeth of the two imperial ...