... 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 ...

... he at one time described himself as a Liberal-Conservative, but when, after the death of Lord Pal- merston, the steady old Whig doctrines began to be overwhelmed by the advancing tide of Radicalism, he gave a firmer allegiance to the Conservative party ...

... 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 ...

... the future policy of the Tory Party, lie will be followed with interest in this passage A Tory and a Radical I understand; a Whig a Democratic aristocrat I cannot comprehend. If the Tories indeed despair of restoring the aristocratic principles, and are ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... prisoners found so many friends as these six lords. Nothing more clearly proves that England doth steadfastly refuse (whatever the Whigs may say) to confound adherence to the ancient House with high treason, a crime against which the English blood naturally shudders ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...