... to perfect accuracy in all I details ; and on the whole this claim may be conceded, although in the etymology of the word Whig we notice one trivial slip. The i Whigatrr/res got their name, not during the I bloody conflict of the Covenauters with ...

... of the opinions which he had thus formed, and when he saw the cause of the Spanish beginning to fail, and the apathy of the Whigs in the matter, be thus wrote to his father:- I take the liberty of informing you and your Opposition friends that the French ...

... therefore crowned with bays. Thus, as it seems, the Devil was i the first Poet-Laureate, as he was afterwards s the first Whig. This incident might assist I Lord Salisburv and the Queen to arrive at some resolution as to the vacant British Laureateship ...

... the AcederrvoJ MI E EownD AnNor.nD will publish in the autumn the Diaries of George Howard, seventh Earl of Carlisie, the Whig statesman of thic middle of the century, who is best known in hi-tory 7s havinul been twice Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Th ...

... tieetuld wife, and say to ilka yin, ' Ye wiibaa loss ocht lately, did ye,- gaid -wife?' Or again- Than ahoen were never made for Whigs, but for honest Khng's folk. Na,: ua, thae dinna gree w I thee niogss.broe an. Thae sort wi' narrow nebs and single soles. ...

... great Conservative -leader:i but contains some interestingg; remititseeces of the Tory revolt of young Edinburgh agiast the Whig supremacy in 1852,.which took: shape in the establishment of the Guardian.by Dalm, 13aynes, and Mr Skelton hieself.. It was ...