... REVIEWS WORTHY AND WHIG Memoirs of the Lift of Sir John Clerk, of Penicuik, Baronet Baron of the Exchequer, Extracted by Himself from His Own Journals, 1676-1755. Edited from the Manuscript in Penicuik House, with an Introduction and Notes, by JOHN M ...

... about them when they were not—him and none other. For the Whig Advocate who wrote to prove that God had always mistrusted and disliked the Tories, took his falsehoods ready made—like the Whig Advocate and man of letters he was. ...

... together with that national ecclesiastical administration and that consideration for their traditions and customs which, till the Whigs fell back on the Marcher policy, made the Principality the most loyal and prosperous part of the great Realm of Britain. ...

... By Rudyard Kipling . Correspondence: Ad G.O.M. . . . . Parliamentary Obstruction .• A Humble Petition . . . . . Worthy and Whig . . . . The Dull Point of View . . . Reformer or Anarchist . . . . A New Pursuit . . . . . Colony Making—Old Style and New ...

... Department, but likewise because they have accepted a Tory conception, and set about their work in a fa.; hion that is neither Whig nor Socialist. Let it be that Mr. Gladstone was well enough aware of the unpopularity, which he would incur by halting on the ...

... ranks for heretical or worldly sin. Now, there is no manner of doubt that the political ancestors of Sir George Trevelyan—the Whigs, that is, from Walpole and Hoadley to Mr. Mundella and Matthew Arnold (not the poet; the pedagogue)—did carry on a silly and ...

... Liberal one the most niggardly of all. Was it not a divine opportunity to dish the Whigs? So the card was pla3ed and it succeeded to admiration in all things but one—the Whigs refused to be dished. Not only the German Liberals but the Conservatives and Poles ...

... your Times with a feeling not dissimilar from shame, and turn for consolation to a certain Letter to thc Electors Bristol. The Whig oligarchy bad faults, but it did not habitually practise abasement to the Mob. Mr. Fowler's clever contrivance is to add from ...

... white, Like sunbeam rather show'd the Carmelite. HUGH HALIBURTON. meant primarily the Whig Ministry' and therewith the commercial classes—at once the support of the Whigs and the greatest curse to Ireland.' That, says the Ex-Chief Sect etary, was why he ...

... it is related by Lodge that when Addison suggested to Edmund Smith a history of the Revolution, the complacent essayist and Whig secretary was vastly disturbed by the question: What shall I do ...

... Plantagenet against the Plantagenet present has long since staled, nor (what is more to the point) did the then reactionary Whig hit the cardinal vice of Teetotal law-making when he quizzed it as grandmotherly.' There is not a little of the old woman, ...

... his ways, it did make him half-hearted. He disapproved of much that his party did : he drew back and let events go on. As a Whig, he would have been in his real place—and he would have been a wholesome influence in that intriguing party. It was his natural ...