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LITERATURE

... have dons wvirh hintl?'he one esked when somebody suggested that the member fot Jineks swould have been a great gain tothe Whigs. It is miot crens fair to say that ambition alone prompted lsis somewv hat sudden conversion to Toryism soon aftet lie hid ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... at the end of the. veer 'tis all very well. And with thesewordeoheleft the astonishedacrowd as usual. Swift had served the Whig party with his pen, and thinking that he deserved some recomsseuse, thus coolly recommended ?? for a rich prehendarly at West ...

Magagines

... IL Temz.Ple Bar gives plenty for the money ; Miss Broughton carries on IBelinda; Wraxall is defended from the sneers of Whigs and Tories-of Macaulay, who would not believe his unsupported testimony even of what he had seen and heard, of Lord Stanhope ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1883
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1685 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE READER

... the last half life-time. We admire Sir Archibald's shrewdness more than his word-painting. The way in which he hits off the Whigs everywhere and at all times as a Mutual Admiration Society who always say the same thing, is simply perfect. What would Sydney ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1883
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2060 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LIFE OF LORD LYNDHURST

... like Peel's nor the result of ardent and almost exclusive patriotism which thought it saw its way rather on the Tory than the Whig side, like Pitt's and Canning's. When his enemies called Lord Lyndhurst Mephistopheles they did a gross wrong to a kindly ...

PEDIGREES AND PEERAGES

... wife of William, first Duke of Bedford, and the mother of William, Lord Russell. Yet who among the countless multitudes of Whigs who have toasted the memory of the patriot from generation to generation have wasted a thought on the atrocious crimes of his ...

CURRENT LITERATURE

... dwarf wvth his hat over his q eyes for the author of Caleb Williams. There was an il-natured touch in reserve for the des Whig and Badieal celebrities of the time which 5= is nissingas a rule in the case of their political I b opponents or others who ...

THE LIFE OF LORD LYTTON

... 'The Sallow Gentleman,' Mr. Huskisson ; ' Harry Finish,' 1-lenry De Ros ; 'Allfair,' Lord Alvanly; 'AAugustus Tomlinson,' the Whigs in general; 'Peter MacGrawler,' the Scotch ditto. E voild iort! The Dule of Devonshire was so pleased with the casica- ture ...

LORD SALISBURY ON MODERN LIBERALISM

... and who . allowed themselveĀ§ 'to be drawn on by allie in &I whom, they had nuo longez any belief.; ' Tho a 'position which Whigs occupied in our coustitutlioA ie system vitiated the compensatory action to which he ta 'had referred, and prevented the machine ...