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Whig- and Tory

... Whig- and Tory. The word Whig was given to the Liberal Party in England the in Cromwell’s time, and was taken from the initial letters of their own motto ‘‘Wo hope in God,” but Drydeu, iu IBtS” wrote them in these terms Damned ncutors, in their middle ...

MEADE KING

... mind that the name had disappeared because the Whig 1800 was the Conservative of to-day. The actual line dividing Whig and Tory was very narrow one indeed The first William Pitt, the Earl Chatham, was a. Whig, and did not suppose there ever was finer or ...

“THE LINE OF BEAUTY.”

... Saebeverell, who of Puritan and Whig family, became a Tory and High Churchman. One sermon he preached before the Judges Derby Assizes, and the other he preached St. Paul’s Cathedral. In both he spoke against the Whig Government, and raised the cry of ...

NOTES

... offer for t>alc of portico of the elder lout’s old Some roots'.uro u» a reminder one the romance* politic*. There was an old Whig baronet of Sir Wiiliam who had gone into exile with the higs low axd* tho end of Queen Anne’s reign. Brooding over his “ wrongs ...

TAKE A LITTLE QUININE,

... feeling against * votes for flappers.' My noble friend's objection really to votes for women at all. is reallv old-fashioned Whig, not even a Liberal, and Whiggitm is the quintessence of selfishness. What would happen if we threw over the extension of ...

TAUNTON-1835,

... the support of O'Connell, but at Taunton circumstances had led him to describe. the Liberator an Incendiary,” and that the Whigs were eager to grasp his bloody hand.” It was in reply those retorts that O’Connell delivered himself of the bitterest, description ...

HUGE FLYING BOAT

... which possesses lifting capacity ol 5,00 lbs. d-.ad wight, has win propellers, driven two h.p. Rolls-Royce engines. It has whig span of 11 oft. and a width 10ft. liin. The boat is 50ft. in length. It is hoped attain a speed of 100 miles per boar. Mansion ...

TRUE MEANING OF CONSERVATISM

... their opponents Whigs, not on account of anything they wore on their heads —(laughter)—tyit because whig was the name given in Scotland to sour milk, and they could not tnink of anything nastier. (Renewed laughter.) The Whigs retaliated by calling ...

BRIDGWATER PAGEANT

... the town. Next the hurly-burly an eighteenth century Hustings Scene. Charles Jamw Fox, glutton, gambler, but the darling the Whigs, is a candidate for Bridgwater. The rival crowds are seen, applauding, shouting, and fighting in front of the platform from ...

WIVEL SCOMBE

... For Aha whist tables were occupi i. Milil ftom iu-Dug « Md‘. \; .• . play th uiatribuitxl th“ cior, n.i-nt iln :b, the f whig pL»y* rs : 1. > —l, Mrs- Ki ...