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SONG OF THE SEEDY

... Iinitials. Happening upon a Whig by mistake, he wras rather roughly answewed, and reprimanded beside. His letter concluded with the question, 'What do these letters stand for?' '1Off for Kinderhook,' answered the lad. The Whig gave him sixpence, and the ...

POETRY

... wrong, for we're all flesh and blood, And somehow or other 'tis now understood. The four years' destruction by neck-aad-neck Whigs, Have made all the people as stubborn as pigs; In vain we say Try us -for truly they know That not a step farther reform-work ...

THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS

... damaging to the Whigs; and there is good reason to believe that if the King had lived, and dissolved again, as he would have done, in 1838, the reaction would have been complete. But it would have been chiefly due to a belief that the Whigs would stick ...

Mr. Gladstone at Oxford

... King to Oxford sent a troop of horse. For Tortes own no argument but force, To Cambridge then a gift of books he sent, For Whigs admit no F orce but Argument. In conclusion Mr. Gladstone protested against universities bejn, turned into manufactories of ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1892
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 28 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LORD SHELBURNE

... popular imagination, of a mild and patriarchal Whig. But few perhaps remember that he was the son of one statesman, and the connection of another, who are best known to history by their opposition to the Whig families; that Lord Shelburne in particular, ...

LITERATURE

... author of what would now be called a Liberal policy I t is necessarily a Whig. And here it is that we join Ii .1 issue with him. We deny that the radical distinc- a tion between Whigs and Tories is to be found in c D the character of their policy. This, ...

A CRY FOR A CRY

... netel ye but shout that the W'higs are oit Asre the grand gutde tian laid by ? \W'tat hinders ye raise the countrv-side With the cry that should aise it best, That tip in the tree is the wicked Tory, And has raxit the Whig fra the nest? -Now haud ye your ...

A CHAUNT CHARTICAL

... 'Grey and Times outbid In news of nations, but it's all a Kydd; Next, offside Wheeler, who in vain commends What timid Whigs complete-and trade suspends. Pen Reynolds there, the great Dumas's double, The Cockney rampdei of Trafalgat's bubble; The greet ...

Published: Sunday 16 April 1848
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ELECTORAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND

... of 183.3, West Sussex was represented by Lord George Lennox, (whig) who had sat i(Bt since 1831, and the Earl of Surrey now Duke of Norfolk, (who had been his colleague since 1832) also whig. contest. At the general election of 1837, the representation ...

THE AGE OF QUEEN ANNE.*

... soon as they returned to power; and that the Whigs connected themselves with the Regent Orleans in order to defeat the Tories, as the Tories had connected themselves with the late King in order to defeat the Whigs. This is very clearly put, both by Ranke ...

THE FIRST LORD MINTO.*

... consequence was the great breach in the Whig party. Sir Gilbert Elliott's correspondence is full of the most interesting particulars of the histwy of the negotiations between Pitt and the section known as the Portland Whigs for a coalition. Eiliott had great ...

LITERATURE,

... Then since 'tis so, the butcher's prayer will ever thus remain, May Tories long continue out, and Whigs their post retain- Since Tories dine, where Whigs would pine-all for their coun- try' -sake - For Britain and Ler butchers know the value of the steak ...