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... the part of the Whigs to obtain that explicit assertion of the de jare sovereignty of William and MIary, which they had failed to secure in tile Bill of Rights and in the Pvecogn-ion Act, is thus suminarised by the editors:- The Whigs, defeated in the ...

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... announcement may well have startled Sir Robert Peel. He las face to fate with the crisis which in subsequent disputes the Whigs designatedl milily the 'Difficulty of the Ladies,' whilst the mte plain-spoken of the Tories called it the 'Bed- chamber Plot ...

LITERATURE

... thwarting England was doubly agreeable to Swift, because England meant primarily the Whig Ministry and the commercial classes, who were at once the chief support of the Whigs and the greatest curse to Ireland; Like Berkeley, he recommended his countrymen to ...

LETERATURE

... because, as he himself says, hie did from his heart abhor., detest, and abjure the develop- ments of %the Whiggery of 11)0 new Whigs as wholly degenerate from that, of their predecessors. 1What, asks AMr Collins, are she facts of the case? In deserting ...

THE THEATRES

... contain a sii~gle Radical, rand he added that he wiould vote against the - Government as long as they brought forward Tory tor Whig measures. The-Horeme ule Bill, he said, ia strongly marked with distrust of the Irish -people. What was given was given grudgingly ...

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... criticism does not apply to Robert Carroll. This is altogether a graceful and l well-told story of the love of a young maid of a Whig family for the heir of an old Jacobite house, of a love that survived many trials on both sides, s)od even death. It was an ...

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... in that. What this country heartily ti desires is a consistent foreign policy, unaffected by any administrative see-saw of Whig or Tory. o] Very few people will agree with Mr Adams's apparent desire that with every new Foreign Is Minister there shoiuld ...