... more pleasant and easy. Only sixteen players were now left standing, but even so the affair looked singular] v oDen. Miss Whig ham continued to hit in her usual powerful style, and had no great trouble to dispose of Miss Moeller, who was continually ...

... of the forehead, and those of the other on the left. Upon inquiry, I found that the body of Amazons on my right hand were Whigs, and those on my left Tories. Long before then, it is probable that the patch had been im pressed into the service of other ...

... Smyths were Cavaliers while Smiths were Evangelicals, Smyths were High Churchmen or Roman Catholics while Smiths flourished as Whigs, Liberals, or Radicals, Smyths suffered for Tory or Jacobite principles. Mr. Reade maintains that the original form of the ...

... people who, as a rule, carefully avoid such functions then make a point of being present, and for that one day, at any rate, Whig and Tory meet in amity. Mr. Brodrick is very popular in the House of Commons, and the same may almost be said of his brilliant ...

... from Boswell's Life of Johnson On Saturday, April 12, I visited him in company with Mr. Windham of Norfolk, whom, though a Whig, he highly valued. One of the best things he ever said was to this gentleman, who before he set out for Ireland as secretary ...

... beautiful seats in Ireland, Westport House, County Mayo. Lord Sligo sat in the House for some years as one of those old- fashioned Whigs who used to be returned by Irish constituencies be fore the Home Rule agitation came to a head. The new Lord Sligo, long known ...

... benches a quarter of a century ago, and he is held up as an ogre, just as Mr. Chamberlain was held up, to frighten away the Whigs. His attitude on the War was very unpopular, but the staunchness with which he held it has increased the respect of many who ...

... bids us take statements from British sources in Newchwang with just the smallest pinch of salt. The expedition which Mr. Whig ham accompanied was under Colonel Genke, who is a nephew of Tschaikowsky the com poser, and who speaks English better than ...

... 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 ...

... military services, and he was one of the instigators of Warren Hastings's impeachment in 1787. He became Prime Minister of the Whig administration in 1831, and retired in 1834 in consequence of a disagreement in the Cabinet on the Irish Coercion Act THE DAILY ...

... 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 ...

... We saw a trained army make its general more powerful than a king and keep even him in awe. It was ground into the minds of Whig and Torv alike that a standing army was a hateful thing, and the feeling remains to this day. Just so when the worthy Labour ...