... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... not. Long before he died, in 1878, the old Whig creed which he personi fied was dead and forgotten. The Administration of 1868 was a long-lived one but before it was out of office the old leader of the Whig party had bitter reason to regret having surrendered ...

... 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 ...

... like a request that he would use his personal influence to make the Whigs obedient to their leader, and it was then that His Majesty said The Constitution makes me guard of the coach, Whig or Tory but you, Mel bourne, are coachman, and you want me to take ...

... river, you may bike on lovely roads where the cry of the wild grouse suddenly rising from the moor, or the whirr of a plover's whig, alone disturbs the mystic silence. The welcome is more hearty, the life more free and varied, the temper of the guests more ...

... 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 ...

... ian, Civis-Romanus-stim sort of attitude of the modern Jingo. At the Table he was a Radical, but in Punch's pages he was a Whig, and not a little responsible for the steady support, or at least the special indulgence, with which our Comic Philosopher ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...