... proved too strong a tempta- tion for so many of the clever young Whigs. The result was that he became a Tory Chief Secretary for Ireland and an anti-Reformer, though he drifted back to the Whigs with the Canningites, and became Home Secre- taryin Lord Grey's ...

... sex or party does the Bouverie' street organ belong ? 'For in moderation it finds all its glory, wlzilst Tories call it Whig, and Whigs call it Tory-lbsen is not a portrayer of real life. There is no class of men who 'send ships to sea knowing them to be ...

... excited state of public feeling in England provoked by the events of the French Revolution. The popular opinion associated the Whig party with the revolutionary movement; and although it was obvious that General Dumouriez, at that time the most conspicuous ...

... offices of lesser importance that trouble arose, and still more in connection with the work of reconciling the rival claims of Whigs and Radicals. The latter, as they had been mainly instrumental in winning the victory, looked for a share of the spoil, and ...

... epitheto a Iet of vague abuse. The succession of political terms used in this sial I~js very curious. At one time of course Whig was an epithet of and ar abuse. In my own younger days I Radical had succeeded to the post; bids 'lw that Radical is beginning ...

... King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories know no argument but force: With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but algument. Had the prize which Sir Thomas founded never produced anything less terse and pointed than this ...

... the crux of she situation is how h- managed to hold it so long. The usual explanation g;VE' by the Tories and Dissentient Whigs at the time and since Nvas that he retained power by the simple expedient of continuous bribery. But the explanation is a little ...

... remain at Lausanne. Swift. he remarks, attributed to t/-cprz,./esof/this pamphlet the growing coldness with which the Whigs regarded him -as though it were likely that Swift should attribute it to the wrapper or the stitching Here is a thoroughly ...

... Most people connect him with horse-racing; but few think of him as holding the balance with the Queen at one end and the Whigs at the other, or are aware that he was accused of bringing Dr. Sacheverell to trial because that clergyman compared him to ...

... is that on Decayed Gentility, in which she portrays amusingly the ancient way of nursing a small borough as practised by Whig and Tory magnates. There are also many charming word-pictures of rural sights and sounds, and the authoress proves that there ...

... French De, stage, has been presented under constantly varying bor aspects. It is not always, in Sam Johnson's phrase, De 1the Whig dogs who are allowed to have the best enc of it. Thus, with Molihre, it was the marquis who fro, Ihad the laugh-and the ...

... characteristic transition to pass from this tribute to his eminence as a poet to his correspondence with Brougham. The great Whig politician seems to have made it his mission during many years to keep Rogers au courant with what was passing in the region ...