... country would revert to a metal currency. Unconstitutional exercise of power. Viola tion of statutory rights, yelled the Whigs and Radicals. The Bank of England was to establish branches in provincial centres. Gross inter ference, roared the Tory m ...

... but a hostile nickname, conferred when everybody was taunted as Jesuit or Jansenist till they became as much party names as Whig and Tory from Rome. Their proper Dutch name is Oud-Roomsch, that is to say, Old Roman they are in no way to be distinguished ...

... but that is no reason why we should not get rid of it at the earliest possible opportunity. The old gangs must go be they Whigs or Tories and new blood, new energy, a new patriotism in a word, a new spirit must take the place now occupied by the sleepers ...

... followed up by the War Office librarian, Mr. Hudleston, in his recent volume of sparkling essays. Mr. Fortescue whips the Whigs, yet, though the Whiggish Macaulay was a very great offender in biased judgments, critical libels are not the monopoly of any ...

... left, were safe. The landowning classes, through the Houses of Parliament, secured and main tained control of the realm. The Whig oligarchy, under Walpole, was succeeded by the Tory oligarchy under Pitt. Both upheld the existing system against all comers ...

... 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 ...