... III IPS The Queen of the Whigs With Lord Holland I could go to hell, but with Lady Holland I would not go to heaven, was the sentiment of Ugo Foscolo with regard to the third Lord Holland and the lady who was Queen of the Whigs for the last century's ...

... shifting of opinions by which the staunch Whig of one generation found him self stranded and left behind as a Tory by the next gene ration. Once upon a time we called the advanced guard of politicians New Whigs, now we call them Radicals. Reform was the ...

... 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 ...

... never go through with them, which, per haps, is just as well for the common good. Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff (another Whig, so Whigs must be prone to the Diary habit) never turned back upon his task, as a whole row of Notes from a Diary bears witness ...

... ance her unrivalled persuasive powers lent to the victorious return of Charles James Fox, the great orator, statesman, and Whig chief, on the memorable electioneering contest at Westminster in 1784, the most famous struggle on record, and one that the ...

... political significance to these doings. Swift's accusation that the Mohocks were all Whigs laid the train for the conception of a vast Whig conspiracy You wicked Whigs, what can you mean, when will your plotting cease Against our most renowntd Queen, her ...

... now to what they were when Dr. Johnson evolved the Parliamentary debates of his day out of his own head, taking care that the Whig class did not get the best of it. In those days members were not quite sure that it was not a high crime and a misdemeanor ...

... Fox, and Sheridan. She cheered the orator's declining years, and to this fair paragon and reigning toast the poets of the Whig party consecrated their muse in all modesty That wishes which never were bounded before Are here bounded by Friendship, and ...

... Brocas. It then passed away from that family and became a post in the gift of the Sovereign. During the ascendancy of the great Whig families, when there was a recasting and rearranging of offices, the post being one of profit under the Crown, was made dependent ...

... applauded in this country. There was an entente with the Government of Louis Philippe, b/it it was the work of Lord Grey and the Whigs, and it was looked at askance by the high Tories. There was another entente with Napoleon III., and although it led to a stirring ...

... he published, a staunch and wittily trenchant ally of the Whig party and Lord Grenville, Fox's Ministerial colleague. These were but a few of the visitors who, in the latter days of the great Whig Chief, and in the earlier career of his beloved nephew, ...

... acrimonious not without reason. O'Connell had fl at that time just entered upon his notorious alliance with the Whigs in spite of the fact that the Whigs had heretofore I treated him as one almost out of the pale of civilisation, had denounced him as a traitor ...