... modem idea seems to that whig” ia simply am abbreviation of wiggamote,” it is sometimes written, “whiggamora; but it is at least possible that the latter is only development of tha older word “whig.'* In ita non-political Sanaa whig has several meanings ...

... which has since 1886 posed as the Great “Liberal” Party has 'been something very different from had been known previously the Whig or the Liberal organisation. According to Sir Wemyes Reid it has been, and still is, in constant danger of disruption. There ...

... which had been seen our Australian Colonies. There had been in this country in recent years a great and unfortunate reversion Whig ideals, and there had also been a great block of reform in the prominence the Irish and other questions, w*hich had kept social ...

... Sir Oliristophcr Wren, at the initiative thirty persons rank, principally of the Whig party, if may judge by their inscribing the first stone with the* words Little Whig,” in compliment to Lady ! Sutherland, noted beauty of the day. Opened the 9th April ...

... are not and never can bo equal, bat that all men can be free. When nation began to settle down couple of hundred years ago, Whig reformers and the middle classes tried to secure liberty and not an impossible equality, the result that now are the freest ...

... policy of our country, which treats our Parliamentary conflicts with the same liberty of language as if was a quarrel between Whigs and Tories, which poises as an arbiter between French parties, gives them a lessor, pretends to teach them moderation and justice ...

... question of diet sheet. The Little Epglander would fed largely upon flesh foods to wean him from timorousness, dishing the Whigs would assume new significance, the British working man would dine cabbage and spikeless thistles to prevent him from striking ...

... formidable inroad upon the enemy’s territory. After all. it is ridiculous that Edinburgh, with its high culture and its old Whig traditions, should ever be anything but Liberal.” ...

... enthusiasm I for the Colonists in the American war was one of tho most discreditable episodes in our history; it was continued Whigs, who heaped abuse Wellington all through the early stages the Peninsular war, and whoso highly-cultured representative swooned ...

... Liberal party in 1886, devoted his trenchant pen forwarding the Unionist cause. was for over 30 years editor of tbs Northern Whig,” and previous the Homs Rule Bill bad taken prominent part all Liberal, ...

... days like office abroad. Matthew Prior, the poet, was ona of the envoys deputed to negotiate the Treaty of Utrecht; among the Whigs, Addison had performed more than one mission like that of Prior among the Tories. The most rencrahle of all is that of the ...

... believe that such one would be able to command or retain audience, or dominate and monopolise talk in the way that the groat Whig essayist was accustomed to do. Or, to take another example—Mrs. Austin wrote M. Barthclcmy St. Hilaire in January, 1662, that ...