... part in the politics of her time. Her method of winning votes for the Whigs was by laying siege to men's hearts, and so gaining them over to her side. She was called the Queen of the Whigs, and it is said that she won the Westminster election for Fo.\, who ...

... March 29, 1799, and began public life as a Canningite, or Conservative Whig, and did not definitely join the Tories until he was thirty-five years of age. But though nominally a Whig (for his family belonged to that party;, his early speeches snow in many ...

... George III.'s reign, and the rival parties patronised rival painters. 1 1 oppner was employed to paint the portraits of the Whig beauties, while Tory ladies sat to Sir rhomas Lawrence. Hoppner's ideal of beauty was the beauty of virtue, and the story goes ...

... leader. Of this he had given many striking proofs at a time when Mr. Gladstone often put to a severe test the confidence of his Whig followers. When a statesman who was at once so honest and so devoted to his party found it necessary to break with the associations ...

... ance her unrivalled persuasive powers lent to the victorious return of Charles James Fox, the great orator, statesman, and Whig chief, on the memorable electioneering contest at Westminster in 1784, the most famous struggle on record, and one that the ...

... League has received the important adhesion of one of the founders of the Free Church of Scotland, Lord Moncreiff, a zealous Whig, who was Mr. Gladstone's Lord Advocate, and whom he made Lord Justice Clerk and a Peer. The Free Church separated from the ...

... just been published, was a man of sound and shrewd commonsense, and was, by virtue of his position as head of one of the great Whig families, always thoroughly in touch with politics and society. He was a type of his class, and offered in his own person a ...

... now to what they were when Dr. Johnson evolved the Parliamentary debates of his day out of his own head, taking care that the Whig class did not get the best of it. In those days members were not quite sure that it was not a high crime and a misdemeanor ...

... Blessing. --From all orders and conditions of politicians, from Unionists and Separatists, from Tories, Radicals, Liberals and Whigs, wells forth the heartfelt ejaculation Thank Goodness. Why? Has the nation just escaped from some tremendous calamity? Not ...

... Fox, and Sheridan. She cheered the orator's declining years, and to this fair paragon and reigning toast the poets of the Whig party consecrated their muse in all modesty That wishes which never were bounded before Are here bounded by Friendship, and ...

... Brocas. It then passed away from that family and became a post in the gift of the Sovereign. During the ascendancy of the great Whig families, when there was a recasting and rearranging of offices, the post being one of profit under the Crown, was made dependent ...

... order to rob him. One of them struck him on the head with a hedge-stake so violently that death ensued. Sir George Grev, the Whig Home Secretary at the time, respited the one who had not struck the fatal How, and he was not executed, while he who had struck ...