... backstairs. He tears the most harmless and natural expressions from their context, as Mr. Seeley plainly shows, and rails as only a Whig can rail against the woman who dared to say aught against Mr. Fox or on behalf of her King. We are often tempted to regret ...

... sympathies; and the Edinburgh ladies become curiously partial to white ribbons. It is not wonderful that this was so, for the Whigs were square-toed in those days. Oysters and porter feasts in dingy and abysmal cellar-shops are a very fashionable form of ...

... is a story of the haute noblesse, the heroine being the strong-willed daughter of one who, ducal though he be, is a typical Whig, though the vicissitudes of politics have unfortunately brought it to pass that he was born a Tory. That, however, is by the ...

... better reading because its author is enough of a patriot to be able to see that cardinal virtues were not confined to the Whigs, that Pitt was no mere blackguard, that the Duke of Wellington was something far greater than a military pedant. It is reasonably ...

... himself as one of those miserable Whigs who led an abject and servile life under the tyranny of Mr. Chamberlain' ; and the description, like so much that is his, is worth remembrance and regard. Sir William has been a Whig as he has been everything. He once ...

... on the other hand the pope's bravest champion, the Jesuit Robert Parsons, earned for himself the title of 'the first English Whig.' Mr. Hume Brown, by the [June 7, 1890 way, quotes from Mr. Hannay a squib of the Civil War period, which runs: ' A Scot and ...

... made to concuss them into Episcopacy. It was inexpedient and wrong, no doubt ; it proved a complete failure ; it has kept the Whig historian in exultation and in lies for a long series of years. But it taught the Kirk the salutary lesson that two could play ...

... necessary to censure strongly a measure brought forward by Mr. Balfour.' As little as Mr. Frederick Greenwood can this veteran Whig of the older days be accused of any desire to embarrass the Government, especially at the present time. And so strong is his ...

... unhealed' is to be at once inaccurate and turgid. Fox's position in politics is somewhat unique. He attempted to found a new Whig party, but having no beliefs he was and could be nothing but an opportunist; and as the end of the eighteenth century was not ...

... passing at the bar his progress to reputation and distinction was unusually rapid and unbroken. What Lord Moncreiff was to the Whigs, Inglis was to the Conservatives—that and a great deal more. He had almost no equal, and certainly no superior, in the art ...

... career he had chosen. His interests were both wide and deep. He was an enthusiastic politician, and he fought the battle of the Whigs with prodigious energy; but he was always animated by such fair and ...

... pleasantly designed. The old Macallister, Hector his son (who suffers a little from the malady of being hero), Cameron the Whig, and Angus the gallantest lad of the crowd :—all these are capital company for the wet afternoons which are making this year ...