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HEATHER IN LITERATURE

... HEATHER IN LITERATUItE. The undeniable trnth of Claverheuse's remark reminding fause 'Whigs that There are hills beyowl Pentlasnd and lands beyond Forth has sunk very deeply into the Scotch mind. The untravelled Soot is apt to forget the existence ...

LITERATURE

... d sing field and Gladstone, besides being adroit party o leaders, were men of ready epeech and persua. t sive tongue. The Whig Jeffrey, while doing a rre- ample justice to Althorp'a courage, immutable S ?? probity and well-meaning, was yet compelled ...

LITERATURE

... virtually continued down to tho Is date of Earl Grey's Reform Ministry; the third je >1 period comprehends the history of the Whig ts ' Ministry from the passing of the Reform Act nr e till the fall of the Melbourne Cabinet in toe 51 h autumn of 1841; and ...

LITERATURE

... cottons. This keen exposer of hypecrisy might have been bred in the school of Carlyle and Rulkin. I-ow, agjm, could either Whig or Tory or Chartst'Radical be expected to pardon the reckless humour, with its dash of unpalatable wisdom, of the following ...

LITERATURE

... on~adays, swallowed up by the blaze of victory Iawhich followed ; hott thle story of Douw b litMauvorosen, whose family is Whig aned Dutch tJ 'g.to the backbone, shows how very real and awful C .bat they were to the lenders of that, a's it seemied el ...

LITERATURE

... a single instance in which the author apears to hzve deviated frem the goldon rule of dealin,-, out even-handed justice to Whig and Tory, Democrat and .Repblican, Progressionist and Reactioua,@ alike. It is in his comrment onlthe following observation ...

LITERATURE

... Fourth, the Wellington Ministry t s vwas defeated on a side issue, resigned office, eI and gave place to Lord Grey and the Whigs ..I-the tirst Lihberal Government that had been nin power for four and twenty years. Then, sbegan the great Reform battle, ...

LITERATURE

... nzot, so far| tas we have seen, quoted by Mr I-ay, constains IfC the heat illustration of Swift's creed ass a H ligh t ?? Whig)' Mr falay givres some pleasant I ,,sb-etches of Swvift's friends, eud he migh~t haveit s included Berkeley smongt them, especially ...

LITERATURE

... both within and without the University of Oxford. The death of the Rlegics- Professor of Diviaity, and the appointment by a Whig Government of al unpalatable successor in Dr Hampden, led to a crisis. The university, and ?? especialJy, did as much aspos- ...

LITERATURE

... indeed, extinet-it is burning more fiercely now, perhaps, than at any time since the memorable dissension in the ranks of the Whigs in the era of the French Revolution; but it rages round other questions than those which Peel had to face. The time has therefore ...

LITERATURE

... turned in this connection a few samples, culled h !at random, will show. In one passage, for ex. t ample, we read that the old Whig gentleman w I wore a wig; in another we are warned that the missal should not be used as a missile; in a third, the auther-the ...

THE UNPUBLISHED BURNS POEMS

... Parliamenet for the huryhe, The catn- didabtec were James Johuntons of Westerhall, Tory; rand Patrick M~ill. y r. of Dais wirntosa, Whig. Miller's fa~therlthe inventor of steam navigation -was Burns's landlord, was onle of the electing dols- gales, and had mlade ...