... arc among us, though many staunch Catholics, few, indeed, of the vermin who, under the name of Independents, Nonconformists, Whigs, and what not, have within the last eighty years murdered one King, driven another from his throne, and do still keep a third ...

... held together for seven hundred years and perhaps more, the risk is too great. I do not say, neither, that we are to turn Whigs. We who fought for the Stuarts stand by them still. They made my grandfather Sheriff and Knight they gave Sir Claudius the ...

... have in my Lord a pillar of strength. He will be to the loyal gentlemen of the North as much as the Duke of Argyll to the Whigs of Scotland. I have it on the best authority that, although brought up in France, he is an Englishman though a Catholic, like ...

... London before you go into the I louse. I shall present you to Lady Cowper, our cousin (she was a Clavering). She is a rank Whig, but a woman of fashion and, what is better, of sense and virtue. Sense and virtue go together, Dorothy, child, though some ...

... money, save a guinea here and there for clothing. Now, sir, I judge not beforehand, but you may be, for aught I know, a vile Whig, endeavouring to instil into an honest mind per nicious opinions or you may be one of those secret plotters who are the curse ...

... Chronicles, and Milan Cathedral was commenced. Or to take a later example, we find that about the time of the Peace of Nimeguen, Whigs and Tories first became known in England, Aphra Behn was writing her romances, Lulli was fiddling his way to fame, Berkeley ...

... and country gentlemen. Dinner despatched, he would presently walk to White's Coffee House, in St. James's Street, where no Whig dare so much as show his face. Here would he take a dish of coffee or chocolate, with a pipe of tobacco, and, perhaps, if the ...

... would have small interest in a Whig Court. Yet when a man is so highly placed he must have friends, cousins, and old acquaintances 011 both sides. Add to this, said Mr. Hilyard, that to-day my turn to-morrow yours The great Whig Lords are not too certain ...

... round her on the floor. I desire before everything else to testify that, though my cousin, Lady Cowper, was the wife of a great Whig Lord and Minister of State, nothing could have been kinder than her reception of me, whose brother she could not but regard ...

... the gates of Newgate to see them enter. It was mostly a Jacobite crowd collected to cheer the unhappy men, but there were Whigs among them. Now as Mr. Hilyard, in his sober physician's dress, stood among the rest, some one tapped him on the shoulder, ...

... nothing but laughing Among her friends, Mr. Hilyard went on, who come to sup with her after the play is a certain great Whig Lord yes, a very great and powerful Lord indeed-- and yet his name need not be mentioned between us, because, perhaps, he is ...

... speech has been admired as a masterpiece of judicial oratory. I know not how that may be it was pleasing, no doubt, for the Whigs to hear of the wickedness of rebellion we are never tired of hearing those sins denounced which we never practise but for the ...