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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 ...

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 ...

IDEAS FROM THE REVIEWS

... could only come from the enlighten- - (LcJl sc cnce, and of a broad and simple Christianity. \cslincs caskell writes as a Whig on Whigs, of whose future - ' 1 c c lj fidence. Thle Okl 'higs under the new conditions of hij M, he fears, will suffer a gentle ...

THE AUTHOR OF THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL

... favourite in society, and through the interest of Fox, in 1780 he ywas returned N.?. for the borough of Stafford. In politics a Whig, ho supported the Marquis of Rocriugham's Administra- tion; he also held office in 1782 as Under-Secretary of State for the ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 846 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

UNDER THE SURFACE; OR, FOLLY AND FASHION

... its King, carriage paid, and right side up, to seek an asylum in England. Mr. Gladstone is still bossing- his A l Cabinet of Whigs aed-Wobblers. Asbantee rather hangs fire. -Nobody knows what the Boars will do .with us or we with the Boers - ~and things ...

UNDER THE SURFACE; OR, FOLLY AND FASHION

... ) BUT really, though the weather has been a trifle sharp, we must not forget the Government, for it's going on anyhow. The Whigs have stolen the clothes of all the fellows in the Cabinet, and there's no telling what may happen. Indeed, if things go on ...

UNDER THE SURFACE; OR, FOLLY AND FASHION

... we ee-series The Ministry may make duffers of themselves, and tie themselves to the clamorous skirts of those old women the Whigs, but they will isver ?? the opinion of the country,-that is, as it was at the election, Radical -down to -the ant layer of ...

THE EXAMINER OF PLAYS

... The quaint old dress, the grand old style, The mots, the racy stories; The wine, the dice, the wit, the bile- The hate of Whigs and Tories. Mr. Kemble is an admirable Snarl, playing the part with a will, and delivering the lecture on the supposed portrait ...

THE READER

... as well as the Hind and Panther. It was well to point out the bitter unfairness of liacaulay, who, as usual, carried his Whig partisanship into the study. It was quite right to expose the very slight grounds on which Mr. Green calls Dryden a libertine ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1881
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2057 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S DIARY

... since they published a couple of volumes on their father's career to vindicate his memory from some depreciatory sentences of a Whig writer, and now they are confronted with some similar phrases from a colleague in the same Tory Cabinet. The grandeur of Lord ...

LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S DIARY.*

... they, published a couple of volumes on their father's career to vindicate h)is memory from some depreciatory sentences of a Whig writer, and now they are confrounted with some similar phrases from a colleague in the same Tory Cabinet. The grandeur of Lord ...

EPILOGUES AND THEIR MORALS

... always find this valour in the poet's Epilogues, which are too frequently given LIP to party P0liticsaand to assaults on tite Whigs and Trimmers. His moat candid attempt in this form was his last (wvrittell as it was within three weeks of his (leath), and ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1647 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture