... entertaining letters enjoyed a great reputation in his day, though his life was scarcely eventful. An undistinguished member of the Whig party at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century, he became, in 1805, Solicitor-General to the Prince ...

... determination to stand by his order.' His son who died full of years on Tuesday, remained equally constant to the ideals of the Whig aristocracy. In other words he sympathised entirely with attempts to improve the condition of the masses, but he thought the ...

... I found little encouragement from my companion, whose father, having forsaken the traditions of his family and embraced the Whig heresy, had enjoined him strictly to shun the society of the Chevalier and that of his dependants, as he would the foul fiend ...

... Hitherto the Club has Emancipate and eager, only shown pictures in what the president, Mr. Douglas The fresh, full-bottomed Whig, Freshfield, describes as 'semi-subterranean chambers,' so Next month had crushed the leaguer that the present exhibition is ...

... the plantings of the king's mistresses and venal voters on the Irish Exchequer, deserved mention as showing the working of Whig Cabinet government in Ireland, and as producing that great literary outburst, Swift's Drapier's Letters; but had little if ...

... many respects it was disappointing. He started with all the chances in his favour, though, as Mr. Lecky points out, he was a Whig rather than a Conservative at heart. Again, he had many natural gifts: unwearied industry, argumentative ability, and a cautious ...

... dangerous or useless craze, the modern Radical will learn the lesson taught of old days and not without some difficulty to his Whig forefathers that it is not for such as him to meddle with Divine things. The meeting held this week at Grosvenor House proves ...

... Accord- HEN in doubt, do nothing ' ; was a favourite ingly the Powers would meddle in the quarrel only to maxim with a former Whig Premier, namely, find themselves most ignominiously flouted by mere Lord Melbourne. The advice is most difficult to follow ...

... confiscations and oppression of Puritan times Wales has never fully recovered. On the Church scruggling to recover itself, the Whig fathers of the Radical Party inflicted their Hanoverian party bishops to punish the Welsh nation for its preference for the ...

... himself may be heard talking about the traditions of the House of Commons, and the necessity of going steadily, like any old Whig ! Ministers may possibly be disturbed by recent events in the Irish Committee; but they can afford to disregard the shrill ...

... into the bargain. Mr. Gardiner is no devotee of parties or persons. He cannot indeed help giving the Whig dogs' the best of it on the whole, because the Whig dogs had so very much the best of it in every respect. There were indeed Royalist and Levelling martyts ...

... statesman in his social aspect as he appeared to a young woman of the world (whose connecaons by the way, were of course all Whig), and surely your study of him is brightened. Very early comes a mention of the exiled royalties in 1811 ; she stayed with ...