... Old Whigs. He believed in the benevolent despot, and when he failed to find him he had no other resource. The great reformers of the last, decade or so, Chang-Chih-Tung, Yuan- Shi- Kai, and even Kang-Yu-Wei, have all been of this essentiall}' Whig school ...

... rout it with its own weapons. At his accession the country was governed by two hundred noblemen and gentlemen representing the Whig families. The influence and irresistible power of these families of the revolution had been upheld by promiscuous corruption ...

... have produced a masterly adaptation of the German method to Isuit our national require ments. But Tullochgorum's desire that Whig and Tory a' agree is not yet fulfilled, for Lord Lansdowne's measure, like Mr. Asquith's speech at Manchester on Saturday, ...

... . 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 ...

... with which they are almost exclusively concerned compete in point of general interest with the previous volumes. The steady Whig statesman is not so interesting as the friend of Byron: the early Victorian period is not redeemed by Holland House from being ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...