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... character and his career, is that he was the last of the Whigs. There are men to-day whom our po litical jargon dubs Whigs there are still prominent members of the old Whig family; but they are innocent of Whig- gerv, they have little in common with the men who ...
... A Whig (aii&dl Somae Tories) on Ike Green Chinese Customs. He has been Inspector-General of Chinese Customs for forty- five years. The Celestial Customs were once a delightful system in which each official robbed the next. Now they are a model. Still ...
... books, I was tempted to take them in and to re-arrange them on my shelves. It is the relics of a representative library of a Whig country house of about 1840. I found among my share one or two little lost gems. Two tiny volumes of Horace (Elzevirs of 1627) ...
... want a policy to unite us, said the young Radical You have had too many policies to divide you, said the old Whig WELL, asked the old Whig, what is the Liberal Party going to do now? Oh, we shall build up our strength in the constituencies, said ...
... Country-house life in Whig circles scarcely veiled adultery, selfish extravagance, drunkenness and time-waste. Whig Society. Here and there; sober writers who own (or have access to) the documents upon which a just estimate of these Whigs can alone be based ...
... want a policy to unite us, said the young Radical You have had too many policies to divide you, said the old Whig WELL, asked the old Whig, what is the Liberal Party going to do now? Oh, we shall build up our strength in the constituencies, said ...
... eventually public opinion will endorse Mr. Baldwin's selection, and conclude that in this appointment we see the best of the old Whig tradition grafted upon the stout stem of modern Toryism. Mr. Churchill stood as an Anti-Communist, and, whatever political ...
... period the Whigs frequently adopted the colour. In some satirical verses published after the death of Bishop Burnet, his Satanic Majesty is represented as asking after Dr. Hoadley, and Burnet as replying 44 Oh, perfectly well: A truer blue Whig you have ...
... clink and jingle of the skaters and J|j^ the murmur of the curling stone. 2|| No party politics around our tee, isjfsj For Whig and Tory on the ice agree JsWff Glory we play for may it be our lot gi&l. To gain the bonspiel by a single shot. True feelings ...
... Liberal Ministers, and as they arc, therefore, necessarily friends, they are, no doubt, often seen about the village together-- Whigs on the Green. Lord Methuen is another prominent resident in this thrice-hallowed spot ...
... citizen in a Yorkshire provincial town as the last Whig. What they meant I suppose was that his politics were Palmerstonian. A Whig must be an aristocrat and belong to a land-owning family. The last of the Whigs was Sir William Harcourt, or perhaps is Lord ...