... anxious for peace, found that the Tory ministry under Lord Oxford, was not strong enough in the House of Lords to oppose the Whigs, who desired the continuance of war. She therefore determined to create a Tory majority, and astonished her Council, one day ...

... lecturer alluded to Swift's anomalous position in the household of his mother's kinsman, Sir William Temple. the prominent Whig statesman and diplomatist of Charles IL's time, who first devised the system of Cabinet Government as now developed in this ...

... to be a Whig majority in the House of Lords, and as the Tories had just got into power in the Commons, they were determined to destroy the Whig majority in the Lords. They decided to make 12 peers in order to swamp the influence of the Whigs. Young Bathurst ...

... night by the Irishmen who don't. He said they have no patriotism. Did he remember that United Ireland once taxed a certain Whig lawyer who has been minding No. I all his life, with the same defect, and that it declared the undisguised enmity off Tory ...

... e, which is about to be sold, Imo special interest for us in consequence of Macaulay's connection with it. There the great Whig historian was born; he liked the quaint old place, went thither as often as he could, and it was as Baron Macaulay of Rothley ...

... appreeticee ship, end when about to commence her treining college career, thus wrote on the subject of history: The names Whig and Tory came into use in the reign of John. The political principles which they represent are these: Ist. Tory. The principles ...

... doors, was changed from an open chocolate house to a private club in 1736. At first it was the resort of the enemies of the Whig Government, and at last in George lll.'s reign it became the resort of the rabid supporters of the Tory Government, and the ...