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... required to be verified. Macaulay himself, we suspect, would have given a different account of the matter. The promotion of Whig principles in politics, and Presbyterian principles in religion, was surely, in his view, a paramount object, towards which ...
... We can perhaps affiml to wake mistakes in some things. we can. again, perhaneact as we wish while beneath the banner .f the Whigs or the Tories. the Conservatives the Liberals but we cannot afford to commit emus once we stand before the woad as representatives ...
... Catholics at present abstain from politics because their consciences will not allow them to unreservedly adopt the principles of Whig or Tory, Conservative or Radical, and because reserved support of the principles of any of these parties means mediocrity and ...
... capitulation of the Highlanders, left their country to follow the fortunes of James 11. Their conduct, Isays Sir John Dalrymple, a Whig, was worthy of the best days of Athens or Sparta ; he adds that they were all of distinguished birth, attached to their officers ...
... Tel-el-Kebir Mr. Gladstone, the same writer considers, has withdrawn behind Lord Granville and his agents, so that the old Whig party is exhibiting itself complacently as in the days of Palmerston. his shirking of the responsibility which he alone ought ...
... some exception to Mr. Justice Fitzgerald's political bias, gives the following favourable estimate of his judicial eminence: A Whig in politics, he regarded the stronger phases of popular agitation with disfavour, and the rhetoric of his charges from the ...
... House of Commons would pronounce Mr. David's election, if he were elected, null and void. If then the Conservatives or the Whigs were to repeat the tactics followed at Mitchell's second election in 1875, their candidate would be declared entitled to the ...
... anxiety was to obtain preferment, and when he failed to obtain it from the Tories he turned savagely on them ; and when the Whigs proved equally unaccommodating, he reviled them in unmeasured terms. But he was human in this, that he had redeeming points ...
... d 'Oistau, and now again, enlarged and revised, in a small volume for English use. As Macaulay's History has been called a Whig Essay, so Sir C. G. Duffy's Bird's-Eye View may be styled an Irish nationalist essay. The events, which do not reach beyond ...