... the hills with Peden and Alexander Gordon, had chosen to remain and drink to the death of rebels and the confusion of all Whigs, in company with rough-riding Lag and Captain Windram, that admirable, hard-drinking, six-bottle man who at Kirkcudbright com ...

... these Boney wars for a gentleman to live on, there isn't. I work my farm and hunt my hounds like a gentleman, and damn the Whigs, I say. People are mostly of that pious opinion, sir, said Sir Piers, save, perhaps, the Prince. Ah, says the Squire looking ...

... little to his birth. His father was a Canon of York, and both father and grandfather were connected by marriage with the leading Whig families of England. It would, therefore, have been some what surprising if Sir William Harcourt had been entirely free from ...

... reputation for talent acquired at Cambridge arid confirmed in Lincoln's Inn, he was speedily received into the inner circle of the Whig coterie of Holland House, where he somehow obtained a recognition thus summarised by Sydney Smith:-- He is one of the most ...

... whether anything was gained in electoral in fluence by the substitution of Conservative for Tory, 01 that of Liberal for Whig. Be that as it may, pace Mr Keir Hardie, Socialism has yet to win popularity as a war cry. It has, no doubt, some respectable ...

... The quaint old dress, the grand old style, The mots, the racy stories, The wine, the dice, the wit, the bile, The hate of Whigs and Tories, as Frederick Locker sang in his London Lyrics. The St. James's, in Piccadilly, is a diplomatic club for foreign ...

... change of atmosphere. Since 1830 the Absolutism of Russia has been the pet aversion of the British people especially of the Whigs, of whom Sir Edward Grey is so eminent and characteristic a survival. 1 o change the habits of seventy-seven years is not easy ...

... well as oi politics. They were both intimate friends of the late Mr. Gladstone, and both more or less inheritors of the old Whig traditions. There, perhaps, the resemblance ends, for Mr. Russell is distinguished as the entertaining raconteur, the urbane ...

... and one that has to be reckoned with seriously by every man who has any thing to lose, no matter whether he calls himself Whig or Tory, or what not. As might have been expected, the Chancellor of the Exchequer tried fo revenge himself for his inability ...

... dwindled by three times that sufficiently formidable figure. In other words, if the Tory has been chastised with whips, the Whig has been chastised with scorpions, and neither side has much to boast of Coming, as it has done, upon the top of the elections ...

... needs of the Navy transformed into pawns in the party game of chess. This is a matter as to which there should be neither Whigs nor Tories the Estimates for both the combatant Services should be framed with a single eye to the needs of the national defence ...

... rise of new and very different forces in political life from those represented by the deceased Duke. The old type of great Whig nobleman which the Duke of Devonshire so fully represented is one which has done the State good service in its time. Such men ...