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... asking his l-eave. Is not this somewhat nkce in a man who by his own account came over to take a King's crown ? ''You little Whig, he cried admiringly. is I knew not that you had been so well trained in your father's opinions. Nay, she answered, ...
... some respects, he is a Radical of the Radicals, but in a good many others he much more closely resembles the Palmerstonian Whigs. Possibly, therefore, his purpose may be to stand aloof until his Party, chastened by the sweet uses of adversity, unites on ...
... of Lords up to the year 1892, when his Scotch dukedom was converted into a dukedom of the United Kingdom. Coming of a great Whig family the late, or eighth duke, was almost up to the time of the Home Rule split a keen ally of the Liberal party. He held ...
... retained to defend Warren Hastings. This prancing proconsul would have preferred Erskine, then the fashionable counsel, but the Whig proclivities of that great advocate lost him the brief. Law did all that could have been expected of him, he quarrelled with ...
... capture the hegemony of the Liberal Party the situation would be changed. The choice would then once again be between Whig Tweedledum and Whig Tweedledee, and the era of alternate leases of power would be re-established. WITH the conclusion of the General ...
... Pretender,” and ended in disclosing the Tories as avowed traitors to “the Protestant succession,” while establishing the downright Whig statesman as the loyal supporter of the throne. The grounds of the Palace were Caroline’s special care ; these she added three ...
... spectators of the great national drama. To the Queen it was a very serious . matter when for the first time in her reign the Whigs went out and the Tories came in. It implied the loss from her side of her first political counsellor and guide, Lord Melbourne ...
... conflict the Queen kept her constitutional place in a way which all acknowledged. She had been very reluctant to replace the Whigs, who were the friends of youth, by a Conservative Ministry, but having got over that early difficulty Her Majesty’s excellent ...
... politics with a picturesque incident. Never again did Her Majesty depart from the Constitutional impartiality W’hich looks upon Whig and Tory, Conservative and Liberal with the same calm confidence and friendliness; and we confess, for our own part, that this ...
... she exercised on the course of affairs was always salutary and not infrequently decisive. The Queen Ixigan life as a staunch Whig ; she is said to have ended it as a strong Conservative. It is impossible to say what exact value is to be attached these ...
... Beaconsfield has told us how Our young Queen and our old institutions,” liecame the watchword of th, country parly, and how the Whig hoasl, She found us in and she kept us in, was answered hy the witty query, But will she keep you in when she finds you out ...
... in the artist’s lively picture, by the introduction of personages so exalted as Charles James Fox, the great statesman and Whig chief, with wellrecognised noblemen famous for their sporting proclivities. It need not be pointed out that, beyond the distinction ...