... At Hampton Court Palace Queen Anne was alternately the prey of interested political schemers, and between the intrigues of Whig and Tory favourites had but an uneasy time of it. Here Harley plotted to bring back the Pretender. In The Rape of the Lock ...

... 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 ...

... of Canning to the Colonial Office, and ends soon after the passage of the Reform Act the third comprises the history of the Whig Ministry from the passage of the Reform Act to the fall of Mel bourne in 1841 the fourth, concerned with the gradual adoption ...

... 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 ...

... the amenity and graces of her deportment, her irresistible manners, and the seduction of her society. The fair Queen of the Whigs, and, indeed, cu the ton of her day, was a reformer in dress, and introduced a simple, flowing, artless style to super sede ...

... of tragedy and comedy extending over two generations attended Mrs. Jordan's benefit performance, the occasion on which the Whig Club offered the substantial tribute of recognition to the merits of the fair comedienne already recorded. This was on April ...

... beginning of the century. When Pitt and Fox were alive there was one bench set apart in the House for the use of Privy Councillors. Whig or Tory, or what ever they might be, Privy Councillors sat on this one bench. The contiguity of members of opposing politics ...

... peculiar circumstances of parties in the present House. Time was when the lines of party were broadly divided by the fence between Whig and Tory. Now the field is cut up into various plots, the space on the floor of the House of Commons being, as it were, let ...

... OF SIX SHADOWS. By BESSIE E. DUFFET. With Illustrations by Wal Paget. Commenced in this Part. A ROMANCE of MAN. By C. E. C. Whig all, Author of The Temptation of'Dulce Carruthers. Illus trated by Hal Ludlow. COMPLETE STORIES. HOW AN OLD TALE CAME TRUE ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... the awgtsment, either by accilent or by motives of revenge, both the barrels of Pifys' gun- go off __I 4 There is a ?? of whigs-the Deeper s15ils and falls. Wilhout wailizng lo0 ik uzp a duck Pipys rueshes from Mhe scene in horror 5 He eanzo/t swear it ...