... these be pronouncedly Whig or Tory, compared with whose settled and unquestioning one-sidedness twentieth-century partisanship seems frothy and tame. On the whole, largely owing to the Holland House tradition and its literature, the Whig dogs have the best ...

... 1640, playing a most important part in the struggle between Cavaliers and Roundheads, Church of England men and Puritans, Whigs and Tories. And it is noteworthy that the sober Puritans showed themselves no whit less adept than their more sprightly opponents ...

... problem was solved, we shall find a little tolerance for the difficulties of Llerr von Bethmann-Hollweg. Unlil there was a Whig majority in our unreformed House of Commons, the Philosophic Radicals stormed and raved in vain. This is the position in Prussia ...

... 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 ...

... Queen Anne was even more sudden. The last weeks of her life were embittered by a controversy of unexampled ferocity between Whigs and Tories. The Jacobite and Hanoverian factions were wrangling desperately over the succession, and their weapons were more ...

... good-bye to his pleasant little country palace and the people who recognised what a good German he had always been. To the Whig Princes of England he was indispensable. They were ashamed of him, and cham pioned him with their left hands when the Tories ...

... passenger who preferred the upper middle-class compartment. But the Zeitgeist will permit no intermediate, no buffer community. The Whig is fast disappearing from the railway, as he has disappeared from politics. Erneat Brook a and Reginald Silk. Ready for the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 from the so-called pre cedents of 1711 and 1S32 we get little assistance. In the former year we learn that the small Whig majority in the House of Lords was converted into a minority by the creation of twelve Tory peers, for the specific purpose ...

... IN Lord Rosebery has recently rescued the character of George II from a gross burden of unmerited calumny on the part of the Whig politicians whom he served with such long-suftering patience and fidelity. A like service might well be paid to his grandson ...

... This portrait was taken by Mr. Haines. JOHN SMITH. SPEAKER 1705 AND 1707 He belonged to a respectable Hampshire family, was Whig member for Andover; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1708-10 died 1723. ARTHUR ONSLOW, SPEAKER 1727-8, 1734-5. 1741, 1747, 1/54-61 ...