... election, an effort was made by the Whig part of the Corporation to choose a Liberal member, none having been returned since Winstanley in 1741. Although the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Stamford, and the county Whig families were powerful allies in the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... marched them to the King. All bruised and bandaged then they went The 'Possum's noble tail was bent The Goose had sprained a whig. And when, with many a grievous moan, They stood before the Dumpling's throne, They were a sorry sight And when the Dumpling ...

... that the late leader of the Welsh Nationalists was, while at Oxford, a member, not of the Radical Club the Russell but of the Whig institution of that nature the Palmerston. This is explicable only on the assumption that, though young Ellis at this stage ...

... brilliant, profoundly interesting, he was yet almost incapable of even copying correctly from his authorities. Macaulay was a Whig to his sturdy hack- bone, and the Tories had but a poor time with him. Even Freeman stands charged with obstructing the ground ...

... 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 ...