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LITERATURE

... ' the country whose free- t domnl have-worshipped.' Proed of his country o and jealous of its honour, he nobly upheld the o Whig mottoof civil and religieus liberty through. a .ut the-world. Every movement for freedom g had his-leartyrsupport. He championed ...

MR GRANT DUFF'S DIARY

... articles, although ina increasing infrequency, up to 1861. . It w1as in 1852 that he became a Ireinber of Brook's, the great Whig Club in St James's Street. It was not long before he enamined that usost cherished possession of the club, the betting- hbook ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... shrugging, and wagging of I'beads and winking of eyes-which, being inter- ,preted, meant 'another gross Whig job! If this `-young man bad not been a great Whig Duke's ' Son, do you think Palmerston would have put him into such an office as this Mar- I quis of ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... Seott's days savouir more of the~tone. of that age than -of- the preh sent. 'The reference, to Sir- John :M~oore'- ias 1a good Whig, or. a. bud General errs even molre' in' taste than: it' du in fact, and the brutalities of' the& Jedburgh' A' mob whio cried ...

NATURE TEACHING IN THE POETRY OF ROBERT BURNS

... borrows an illustration from the impressive cliff scenery of the Scottish coast, as when he likens the rising iprogress of the Whigs to the roar of the wvintry billows against the Buchan Bullers The wondrous variety that unfelds itself to the stroller by ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... princ'iples to Ite 'thoset ?? l\ajes'tv,'s Arlminiztiation,` and Scott- now M8r Williatm Scott, Bart.-Nlhe-represt-.ntedit the W'hig interest, Unit ovaoS prepatrod toI scc-nrc as large an allowance of lholidays as poaibo Inspts ofnthi aluig ProtC, 'S hoe only ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... exchanged for gold, and so compelling the Bank to suspend payment. Happily for the Bank, its proprietors and its friends-for all Whigs had political reasons for friendship-stood nobly by it, and it wcathere'1 the stornt. One man, who had only ;£500, took it ...