... contains five dukies of the United Kingdom, two of Tory and three of Whig creation. One'of the Tory dukedoms, however, is that of Wellington, in no sense a party creation. The Whig appetite for strawberry-leaves is therefore to the Tory in the ratio of ...

... world is divided. Tories and Whigs stood opposed to each other on intelli- gible grounds; Conservatives and Radicals stand opposed to each. other on intelligible grounds; but the classification of men as Conser- vatives and Whigs or as Conservatives and Liberals ...

... intolerable to his tameless spirit that there should be imputed to him any degree of subordina- tion to the leader of the Whigs, and he exultingly hastened to reply to Lord Iartington's notice in the stately epistolary style in which Flood and Grattan ...

... soon as they returned to power; and that the Whigs connected themselves with the Regent Orleans in order to defeat the Tories, as the Tories had connected themselves with the late King in order to defeat the Whigs. This is very clearly put, both by Ranke ...

... make it forgive the Whigs. Yet NAPOLEON was, after all, a despot who represented democracy. He had much affinity for many things for which the Whigs had a natural tenderness, and his system was irreconcilable with much for which the Whigs had an historical ...

... expected promotion from the Whigs afterwards; as according to Lord Denman he did, having entertained the hope of being Tenterden's successor himself. Lord Brougham, however, agrees that he was very badly treated by the Whigs, though he could not have meant ...

... the bonds, of a State connection. In 1834, he was one of a deputation which pleaded long and urgently with Lord Melbourne's Whig AIlinistry for additional endowments; and his want of success was reihaps the first thing that shook his previously rigid defence ...

... show in this place is that the war of i689-97 was eminently popular, and was not carried on either by William or by the great Whig families (as some have dreamed), much less by the Tories, for their own exclusive profit and pleasure. In fact, the Tories ...

... century after the revolution it was one of the most treasured political weapons of the Whigs. When, under the influence of Burke, the cry was abandoned by the Whig leaders, it was soon taken up by the Tories; and for many years it formed one of the chief ...

... in Ireland are still contemptuously called Whigs (O'CONNELL having suc- ceeded in fixing degrading associations in the Irish mind upon the name of the great English party) ; for Irish Tories and Irish Whigs feel when the dignity and power of Parliament ...

... probably all the energy of the Conservatives will be perverted towards the dis- covery of some new expedient for dishing the Whigs. If the further debasement of our electoral system can be prevented, it will be by prolonged controversy and consequent hesitation ...

... motives we must re-member what had gone before. He had quarrelled in 1717 w'ith tlle Liberal section of the W~higs. This section of the Whigs had offended the great body of the clergy beyond forgiveness. It was known, of course, that Stanollpe had intended ...