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REMINISCENCES OF MR GEORGE RUSSELL.*

... young Liberal in a Scotch country house, he was taken *with the young man's conversation and pleased to find that he was a Whig. When the party broke up he remarked to his new friend, Well, I am very glad to have made your aeqnaintance, and now, you ...

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... emoted-- I have no resppct whatever for Whigs, but I have a great deci of the Chartist in nsa. I This saying, of couirse; does not mean much ; it! Was, ?? suspect, the emphatic expression rather Iof dislike of the Whigs than of sympathy with i 'the Clsartists ...

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... disappeared, with one exception, from the o rolls of our army. Tratl exception was the ti raised out of the wild Westland Whigs - in 1689, and which fortunately reverted .afterwards to the British service, to become I known for much more than a century ...

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... who- ever writes it will have to deal with the'n.3' Mr Gregory's public life camne to an end in 1831 on the accession of the Whigs to power. Ho was a staunch Conservative, and had always been opposed to Catholic emancipa- tion, so that his dismissal by Lord ...

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... was against the college statutes, and while the authorities feared the King, they feared God Almighty still more. A great Whig centre at the time of the Revolution, it had then on the foundation Creech, the translator of Lucretius. Dryden complimented ...

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... rather flattering, which, of course, is natural senough, seeing that the Lady Elizabeth and her - relatives were all on the Whig side. 12 He spoke a good deal about SirJoseph Banks, who, he said, was uuch esteemed in this country. . . . He is under the ...

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... The editor maintains that they show Crawford in a much mere favourable light than that in which maost people, ?? tie great Whig historian, have been used to regard him. They are certainly very unctuous productions, abounding in Scripture phraseology and ...

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... Cromwell took and occupied it. The Scottish regalia 'was successfully concealed in it. 'It was used as a prison for Wild Westland Whigs, and possibly for others as wvell. It contbains in itself, in its history, and in its domestic economy- ?? ?? t~adfairly sized ...

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... complimentary thing that cam be I said about Shrewsbury is that Mr Weyman has contrived to make the tangle of Jacobite and' Whig parties intelligible to those who read his book attentively. But his abilities are wasted on the task. Czeo, the Mgnijficent; ...

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... Thlereislikenvise present through- out the. volume a tone in the criticism which suggests that, like Dr Johnson lwith regard to the Whig dogs, when writiug the Parliameotary debates in the Gentleman's M,1agazine, Mr M ?? will take care that the Lory dogs ' ...

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... 'lOW irilkel is to be tak-en. as a s-t-eiient iwswer to tile ivecti-ives of Jluninus and the solelmn denunlciations of the Whig hisLorians. a Theaoutbiogrnapiy wsxvn written in 1804-5, when a the Dul.Co was almost seventy, asd bad been h withdrawn fron ...

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... anonugt the proposed remedies. It will be gathered from the cursory account whichl we have given of it that the Protestant I Whig's account of the Highlands 150 years ago cannot be accepted without much allowance for both religious and political prejudices ...