... influences of the Whig form of Liberalism, which was hereditary in his family. His father, of whom he was the third son, became sixth Duke of Bedford soon after Lord John's birth, and was one of the little band of aristocratic Whigs whom the French Revolution ...

... two families in whom the interest centres and the contention between Roundheads and Cavaliers, Hanoverians and Jacobites, Whigs and Tories. There is the dis possessed heir in exile, returning at last to disappoint the loyal heart which placed its whole ...

... Charles Dilke, as representing the Home Rule Radicals in the Cabinet of 1880, on the one hand, and Mr. Gladstone held back by the Whig section on the other. The crisis was averted by the sudden defeat of the Government and the accession to power of Lord Salisbury ...

... following year Hawthorne received the appointment of surveyor to the Custom House, retaining it until he was removed by the new Whig Administration which came into power three years subsequently. Though his decapitation, as Bridge calls it, was deeply vexatious ...

... estate of Shaws in lieu of her that David, who should have been a man ot landed estate on his father's death, and was a good Whig, got naught but a few baubces and a Bible to begin life with that he was recommended to his uncle Ebenezer, who feared him ...

... Hastings, naturally challenges comparison with Lord Macaulay's brilliant but one sided Essay, for it is safe to say that the Whig historian's estimate of the great Governor-General is the one work often read by the public. The occasion of Macaulay's onslaught ...

... Diana of Hatfield but, writes Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, with sour triumph he was what Dr. Johnson would have called a dog of a Whig An imperfect attempt was made on the hostile side to oppose this new species of warfare by similar captivation, and Lady Salisbury ...