LITERATURE

... times are descended from ancikat Whig atems. For eseple-from the great Whig ?? Churchill, springs the popular nobleman uhb now is the Conservative Viceroy of Ireland. Tho Tory Duke of Portland is sprung from tbe staunch Whig, Bentinek; and his Grace of Manchester ...

Poetry, Original and Selected

... send the stanes spirnen, Wi' a whirr and a curr till they sit roun'the tee. Then hurrah! &v. It's an uncolike story that baith Whig and Tory Mann aye collyshangy like dogs ower a bane ; And a' denominations are wantin' in patience For nae Kirk will thole ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... unekilfisl. When the paper was dead, and Lord Beaconsfield had made his reputation with Vivian Grey, it became a commonplace of Whig party warfare to assert that he had been the editor and founder of the Representative, that his flippancy and follies had been ...

BURKE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE.*

... his appointment as Lord Justice of Appeal. If the Tory precedent of Lord Eldon's earldom does not justify his elevation, the Whig precedent of Lord Cottenham and his earldom justifies it with super- fluous abundance. Again, the Marquis of Abergavenny, were ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... sacrificial mys-| teries. (what would he not sacrifice for a new sensation P) -and our effete aristocratic and bureaucratic Whigs who always grasp at all the spoils of office, ead nearly aiways. desert their followers and allies .in the day of serious' ...

THE READER

... adventurous man who had been tried by debt, by exile, by imprisonment, and whose hand was against all in power, as all in power, Whig almost as much as Tory, wvere against him-Mr. Smith passes somewhat lightly. The quarrel with Wright, the coolness towards ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1879
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2696 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... principles to expediency. It has been a fashion with shallow Liberals ever since the Reform Act to sneer at the Whigs as an obsolete Party. The Whigs, indeed, have never adopted the modern doctrine that legislation is to be dictated by public opinion; and in ...

LITERATURE

... time I had the misfortune to differ with my frienls was about the year 163, when the Turks were c besieging Vienna, and the Whigs in England, generally c speakin, were for the Turks taking it-which I, having read the history of the ciuelty and perfidious ...

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART

... now in, the possession of Mr. Macmuillan. -A phamphiet by M~ajor Osborne in defence of the forelgn policy advocated by the Whig party during the Fwrench war is iathe press. The pamphlet has also a certain beardng upon the Easteru question. It is writtien ...

ART, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE

... '~volmune to his Storiesfrom Homer and Virgil. A Pamphblet by Major Osborne in defence of the frinpolicy advocated by- the Whig party during the Frenc War is in the press. The pamphlet has also a I cer-tain bearinig upon theEastern question. It is written ...

LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP

... nd will be published in a few days. lie'fAs A pamphlet by Major Osborne in defenc o e g the foreign policy advoceted by the Whig party Lint ,d tinring the F rench War is in the poress. bree A Bible of 'Luther will ahortly be seen at a te]]i' London bo ...