Biographies

... 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 ave. But though nominally a Whig (for his family belonged to that party), his early speeches show in many ...

New Novels

... comprises a very full and vivid picture of society in the mainly Quaker, partly military, city of Philadel1.hia and of its ' Whigs and ' Tories before and during the War of Independence: a striking portrait of Washington, and a brilliant account of his ...

New Novels

... save honour ; the quaint Scottish gentlewoman of the older world ; the queer little cripple ; the Whig officer who is a good fellow, and the other Whig officer who is an unmitigated villain and poltroon; the trimming provost; the foolish and conceited ...

Mr. Gladstone at Oxford

... King to Oxford sent a troop of horse. For Tortes own no argument but force, To Cambridge then a gift of books he sent, For Whigs admit no F orce but Argument. In conclusion Mr. Gladstone protested against universities bejn, turned into manufactories of ...

Two Noteworthy Lives

... 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 thoioughly in touch with politics and society. He was a type of his class, and offered ii his own person a ...

Graphic Parliamentary Pictures

... 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 ...

REVIEWS

... his knowledge of Ulster and that once potent political factor, the northern Whig, and we sympathize with him in his desertion by the Liberal statesman whom he and the northern Whig worshipped not wisely but too well; but we had been better pleased ifl he ...

BOOKS RECEIVED

... Withume, ca Peyiaustratonr ady.oal ntfl-nth athe Book of GoyssLff and Gofes. 8yHorpase- ~dsages H. h. ditoy. Wh TaylorH (. Whig partcuar ?? on smep) ...

A MAN OF ACTION.*

... see how in this a game of crose-parposes Godolphin's Whig Cabinet insinuated that the commander it had chosen I Yy wasl an impostor, while the Tories hotly upheld I. the heroism of its grmat a Whig as could be found in the kingdom. The assailed met the ...

A MAD KING

... legislating I'll show the people I've th' intent, By their condition elevating, Their stock of happiness to augment, And if both Whig and Tory take Fright at such measures, I'll a. Red The Premier of the country make, Oh! the King is stark, staring mad I ...

MAGAZINES FOR JANUARY

... Fielding and Smollett to which we >have referred ?? - The Tories could accuse the Whig Government of making English poliey subservient to Hanoverian interests. But the Whigs countered with tremendous [force by fastening on their opponents the charge of i ...

COLLEGE HISTORIES

... Christopher Wren was at Wadham from 1649 to 16M3. In the early part of the eighteenth century Wadham was a Whig college, and after the death of its great Whig NAWarden, Dunster, it fell on evil tirues. At the period of the Wxford Movement Wadhant was on the ...