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... Burleigh, in 19°3. • The Villiers pension was a .scandalous job. On tile plea of poverty, or something like it, this typical Whig drew from the Treasury in the form of pension no less than bo,ilio—and died leaving considerably over Ltoomoo net personalty ...
... your Muse is a drab who flaunts tawdry finery—not a Goddess: his history is as much fiction as your short stories, and his Whig view of life is yours: h e the literary lion of his time as you are of this time; name was in all men's mouths as yours is ...
... and instructive.—Southport Guardian. The title has been well chosen.—The Outfitter Will be found most valuable.—Northern Whig An invaluable vade mecum.—Universal Provider. An eloquent plea.—Sheffield Weekly Independent. No better book of its compass ...
... previous book, How to do more Business Very useful.—The Baker. 1 4 A capital book.—The Grocer. Most valuable.—Northern Whig. Golden hints.—Grocers' Assistant. Many useful hints. — British Baker. Brimful of hints.—British Printer. Practical ...
... gentleman, we are often told. Perhaps even a Right Hon. Gentleman, if we are to believe Dr. Johnson's assertion that the first Whig was 'the Devil. To which good Boswell replied: He certainly was, sir. The Devil was impatient of subordination; he was the ...
... years. Successive Whigs, including that maundering dolt, Addison, praised it, either because the author had su ppo rted regicide, or else because he had glorified the Devil who was, we remember, according to Dr. Johnson, the first Whig). But to this day ...
... JOHN BULL. THE ALARMING INCREASE OF SOBRIETY. BY A WHIG OF THE SCHOOL OF THEODORE HOOK. At a moment when the entire country, if we listen to the moans of Radical organs, is meditating in a rapt abstraction as to how Board Schools can best stuff childt ...
... Your father, Lord Goderich, perhaps the most insignificant Premier of the nineteenth century, was a pillar of the pernicious Whig oligarchy, and you were accordingiy marked out from birth as an hereditary holder of office. Indeed, I be- Feve you were actually ...
... himself between the devil and the deep sea? Our advice to him is to make up his mind without further delay whether he will have a Whig or a Democratic Ministry, and, having done so, to shed the incongruous element—and then we shall know exactly where we are ...
... alive. The only question which remains is whether Mr. Redmond is willing to take something less than he wants and the Cabinet Whigs are willing to concede something more than they have given. In this case, the Bill could be withdrawn without loss of time ...
... are born. Before C.-B. can get on he will have to shed the Whigs. But shedding the Whigs means losing some of his best men. Meantime ' Ireland will get no more from the Whigs than the Whigs have already offered, and C.-B. is unable to give more because ...
... we prefer to 'select the strain. As regards the Government plan it is the old, old story—barking instead of biting. Those Whigs again Ministers have taken a sort of lovers' walk to their goal. They have taken the shortest cut by the longest way round ...