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THE DECLINE OF THE WHIG PARTY

... lea, member for Dublin governs Ireland. The Whigs goverbl nothingd e Downing-street. The right honourable gentleman, the member fot Tamwooth, is contented with power without place or patronage, ard t rf Whigs are contented with place and patronage without ...

A CRY FOR A CRY

... netel ye but shout that the W'higs are oit Asre the grand gutde tian laid by ? \W'tat hinders ye raise the countrv-side With the cry that should aise it best, That tip in the tree is the wicked Tory, And has raxit the Whig fra the nest? -Now haud ye your ...

LORD MELBOURNE'S LETTERS.*

... proved too strong a tempta- tion for so many of the clever young Whigs. The result was that he became a Tory Chief Secretary for Ireland and an anti-Reformer, though he drifted back to the Whigs with the Canningites, and became Home Secre- taryin Lord Grey's ...

IDEAS FROM THE REVIEWS

... science, and of a broad and simple Christianity. Air Charles M-ilnes Gaskell writes as a Whig on Whigs, of whose future I-ehas but little confidence. The Old Whigs under the new conditions of l-c y~ol;cal world, he fears, will suffer a gentle euthanasia ...

BARBARA PHILPOT:

... of the second rank, right or left, according to their political creed of Whig or Tory. The former are in a mighty flutter this afternoon, for Walpole's profegee should be a Whig-and yet she's supported by her Grace of Queensbury, who flirts with Bolingbroke ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1257 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE AND POLITICS

... have stood on end if you had assured him that lis sound Whig principles were simply a form of dogged Conservatlsmr? Was he not in favour of the Reform Bill, of free trade, and ot every accepted Whig shibboleth ? It was quite true, but it was equally trie ...

GNEIST'S ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.*

... histories especially' in giving prominence to the monarchy and' to administrative law. Written in the days7 of Whig ascendency, by men penetrated with Whig' enthusiasm,, those histories: scarcely enabled the reader to appreciate the full significance of the medieval ...

DRAMATIC CRITICISM AS SHE IS WROTE

... sex or party does the Bouverie' street organ belong ? 'For in moderation it finds all its glory, wlzilst Tories call it Whig, and Whigs call it Tory-lbsen is not a portrayer of real life. There is no class of men who 'send ships to sea knowing them to be ...

PUBLIC MEN ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS

... attack; made upou them had appeared the Edinburgh under the title of '• Plain Whig Principles. The editor laid down a number propositions which were jt plain, and which were not Whig, and which were only conspicuous for the absence of any principle at all ...

THE NEW PRAED-McCARTHY NOVEL

... co-operate with any one who will do good to the people, be he Tory, Whig, or Radical-an absurd profession, surely; for although a Tory may do good to the people, as may a Radical, a Whig can never do good to any one except his own and his wife's relations ...

ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

... reward for party writing. Congreve got his places because he was an ornament to the Whigs; but he was never a Whig pamphleteer. No doubt Addison used his pen for the Whigs as Swift did for the Tories; and his pro- motion was partly justified by a political ...