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... way. In 1833 the bill for the abolition of slavery throughout the British dominions, introduced by Stanley on behalf of the Whig Government, passed the House of Commons, although the motion to go into committee on it was carried by a majority of only 7 ...
... It happened to be the first of August, the anniversary of the death of Queen Anne, a day held of great account among the Whigs. Unhappily the text of the Doctor's sermon was Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, a choice which we are told in ...
... It happened to be the first of August, the anniversary of the death of Queen Anne, a day held of great account among the Whigs. Unhappily the text of the Doctor's sermon was Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, a choice which we are told in ...
... the candour to leave it on record that when he wrote an account of a debate he took good care to see that those dogs, the Whigs, never got the best of it. The finished phrases and the rolling periods which seem to have impressed the critic of modern ...
... the tradition of a ruler who enters into no party con spiracies who favours one leader no more than another who knows neither Whig nor Tory, Unionist nor Liberal, but only ministers of the Crown and servants of the country who inspires but does not meddle ...
... immense capacity for taking pains, and an indomitable determination. When after the election at Wycombe in 1832, he cried, The Whigs have opposed me, not I them and they shall repent it, this was not mere braggardism it was a deliberate and purposeful utterance ...
... immense capacity for taking pains, and an indomitable determination. When after the election at Wycombe in 1832, he cried, The Whigs have opposed me, not I them and they shall repent it, this was not mere braggardism it was a deliberate and purposeful utterance ...
... uncomfortable a capital from a social point of view. We may _ be quite certain the great ladies of our feudal aristocracy, whether Whig or Tory, will not take such an alarming accession of nobodies to their charmed circle without protest, and that there will ...