CHARLES KIRKPATRICK SHARPE, THE SCOTTISH HORACE WALPOLE

... Wyvth, Certainly, numberless poetical beauties. Mil- ton was a Whig, and, in my mind, an Atheist. I am persuaded his poem was composed to apologiss for the devil, who cer- tainly was the first Whig on record. He entered at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1798, ...

LITERATURE

... to expect a pro- W'duction as thoroughly Tory as Macaulay's| he | account of the monarch's reign is uncom- In- promisingly Whig. In this respect, how- Irs ever, Mr Traili's work presents a very: elstriking contrast to that of the der writer, 2o1an is ...

THE NEW PRAED-McCARTHY NOVEL

... co-operate with any one who will do good to the people, be he Tory, Whig, or Radical-an absurd profession, surely; for although a Tory may do good to the people, as may a Radical, a Whig can never do good to any one except his own and his wife's relations ...

THE DEMOCRATIC SHOW; OR, THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

... THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. Awa', Whige awa'- Awn', Whig, awna'' Ye're but a pack o' traitor loons, Ye'll no'er do good at a' I Our titristles flourished fresh and fair, And bonuy bloomed oar roses, Bat Whigs cate like a frost in June, And withered a' our ...

INDUSTRIAL AND COTTAGERS' SHOW AT LOUGHGALL

... cross-voting lately What are we to consider you now-Con- servative or Radical, Whig or Tory? Sir Edward Watkin-My lord, you must not consider me Con- servative or Radical, Whig or Tory. I am for the Union-of France and England; I am a Channel- tunlelist ...

THE DEMOCRATIC SHOW

... they can do, if theylike. It will be a great disap- pointmenti to English democrats if the men of Ayr return Mr. Ashley, a Whig and an aristocrat, a poli- tical carpet-bagger, sent by the pseudo Unionists. Scotland has ever been in the van of Liberalism ...

SOME FACES FROM VANITY FAIR

... and succeeding his father. His politics have been variable and progressive in the right direction. His family had long been Whigs, and he himself was a Lord-in-Waiting under Mr. Gladstone from 688o to xSSS, and was rewarded for his services by being made ...

MILITARY MEMOIRS: INDIA AND AFGHANISTAN

... establish by force a British influence in Afghanistan was in itself an error. It was not so the Times reasoned in I879. The Whigs of i842-3 were for a forward policy: the Tories were for withdrawal. Sir Charles Macgregor's life, though it is full of personal ...

THE DEMOCRATIC SHOW

... presenting a forsmidable demand for Home Rule, It comes to this-that the real breakers- sp of the Union arc the English Tories and Whigs. because, while they have been obstructing and squab- bling about prejudices, monopolies, and offices, all legislation has ...

THE MAN WHO MIGHT HAVE AVERTED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

... clearly enough now that the only finally possible new order was complete democracy; but Turgot was no Democrat: in spite of his Whig economics he was a Tory in his notions of authority. He had to accept the alternative, temporarily possible, but finally disastrous ...

MAGAZINES

... Sir, he ansvered ,I thought it better to put myself in the Almighty's hands than to trust your honotr to the mercy of the Whigs. ...