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... Ministers what was the real difference between a Whig and a Tory :-Piecee your Majesty, replied the Minister, ' I conceive the differeuce to be merely nominal; the Tories are Whigs when they want place,and the Whigs are Tories when ihey bave got themn. Fred ...

POETRY

... Thou ouly, on1tironed upon Row, inspixcst our ?? and Odygs- eye now. Once Wvhig suffered Tory as brother, And Toty Was ?? with Whig; Now eavjch side addressee the other As 1Pig. Now Senators qihujion tenter. hooks howf to shout beat to be heard; And tlinr's ...

LECTURE BY FATHER BILLINGTON

... largely indulgent. We had, too, the Lord Chambermain, who was supposed to be a moral aud uprightofflaial, but who muat be a. Whig or a Tory. The idea of the index then was not a novel one in this country. The whole idea of the index was that the Charch ...

LITERARY SELECTIONS

... immediate return of the money. Can't be done, your lordship, said thecabinsa, grinning. Can't! why not? rejoined the immortal Whig. Why, my lord, I thought a great nobleman like vou of course meant to give me the money as compensation for the honour of ...

LITERARY SELECTIONS

... Charles II., that the election struggles began, based on the party divisions of the Court aiid cotnuty party, the Tories and Whigs, Cotnervativos and Radicals, which StiU continue. Froin that day to this every election has resounded wibh similar cries, and ...

LITERARY SELECTIONS

... 1832, he wrote on the same day to the Duke of, Wellington to congratulate him onl the salvation of the Constitution from the Whigs, and to Lord Grey to condole with him on its pending destruction by the Toiries, and enciosed-the letters in the wrougenvolope; ...

THE REVENGE OF A LIFE: A CAMBRO-BRITANNIC STORY

... TO, prosperous reign-tho local government was eonducted in a der way that astonished everybody, and met the approval of he Whig, Tory, Radical, and Coniervative;. that'he himself it I had other views in life and other and higher pros- cril peetl in the ...

LIETERARY SELECTIONS

... I., held the office of Master of the Rolls for is twenty-one years. Pope has satirically described him as I an )d Odd old Whig, in Who never ebanged his principle or wig. Iu addition to his judicial duties Sir Joseph devoted him- c self to polities ...

GREAT ECCLESTON AGRICULTURAL SHOW

... hatter Itime than the present for farmelrs to ask relief from the 3dangers which threatened them. Whether atatesneen .were Whigs or Tories, they were equally bound to find some way to meet the difficulty presenting itself, and undaly weighing down the ...