... name. It is called after John Debrett, a publisher, whose premises, opposite Burlington House, were much frequented by the Whigs of his day. He published Peerages intermittently, as his pre- decessor had done, and eventually added for the first time a ...

... somebody who could impartially — neither Whig nor Tory —(laughter and cheers) he did not know such a man, and he did not want to — ( renewed laughter) — but he meant one who for this purpose would be neither Whig nor Tory. but who could simply explain and ...

... Greening, from the Liberal Unionist Central Office in London, has joined Mr. Maclachlan, who r is the principal organiser for that whig of the Unionist force in this district of Lancashire. The sugges- tion was made that in the present contest some 1 effort would ...

... all these three species of the common white I have known to hibernate through rafld winters ; bnt they are rarely seen on the whig, in the same way, or as freely as urtiem and rhamni, but may be found in aa half- dormant state concealed about hayricks, old ...

... been elevated to che Peerage of the Tnited King- dom as Baron Carlingford in recognition of his long political services to the Whig Party. During his representation of tiie County of Louth, wliich he held for over a quarter of a century, the late Lord Carlingfnrd ...

... nothing so indestructible as a great Party. The con- trary rather is the case when a great Party abandons great principles. The Whigs were annihilated for a quarter of a Century owin ...

... How trenchant his note to Mr. Gleig apropos of Lord Russell's elevation to the Peerage : The self-glorification of the Whigs and Freetraders is utterly intoler- able. They take credit to themselves for the ordi- nary operations of Nature from a good ...

... produces show that when that wrong-headed noble- man was entrusted with the government of Ireland as a concession to the Portland Whigs both Pitt and the Duke of Portland took every precaution to guard against any misconception of thed uties assigned to the new ...

... Authorised Version published in 1611 and 1612, so called on account of mistakes in the third chapter of Ruth. There is the Whig Bible, a second edition of the Geneva version, with Blessed are the place- makers, instead of peacemakers, in the seventh ...

... the middle of the Nineteenth. The Tractarians had suc- ceeded in reviving the conception — which a cen- I tury and a half of Whig and Hanoverian influences had almost obliterated— of the Church of England as the ancient Catholic Church of this country. ...

... the baiting of Ritualistic curates for more exalted prey. It is not a little curious that Dr. Temple, who was selected by a Whig Government back in the Forties to start an undenominational training college at Kneller Hall, and who so warmly espoused ...

... of the feast. Wilson was Dresent, and the Shep- herd, and Peter of the Painch. Most of the speakers seem to have been Whigs, and they scrupulously refrained from praising any contem- porary poet whose politics happened to be Tory. But in those days ...