... under any cir- cumstances. The infatuation of the Whig leaders made its return to power inevitable. Since the Queen's accession a combination of Whigs and Tories had governed the country with success. The Whigs had now determined that this system should be ...

... whole body of the now calumniated Whigs, faithful to the principles of the Rlev'olution, were again in a manner instinctively at their posts; and Lord Ersskitie, then at the bar, was requested, or rather urged by every Whig in England, to give up his lucra- ...

... too-the Schoolmaster, with rod in hand, threatening Whigs! upbraiding them with their faults, awfully pointing out their ten- dency,and sternly insisting upon reformation-not reformation of the State, but of Whig indifference to places and salaries. This Busby ...

... they come to displace and dispossess and annihilate the Whigs, they say— a truce with party : a species of impudence never excelled even by that perfection of it, the stage Irishman. The Whigs have received this invasion toppling down upon them with ...

... Stanzas, by way of rider. Free Trade! the Tories must share the fame- Put a Whig in place of each Tory name; Yoil 6nd the effect will he just the same! Which Nobody can deny. Give the Whig as well as the Devil his due; He may certainly brag of a bealtbier hue: ...

... Tory Government. Marlborough and Godolphin were fast friends. They were in principle neither Whigs nor Tories; that is to say, they neither sympathized with the Whig oligarchy nor yet with the party of divine right and ecclesiastical intolerance. Their object ...

... unpopular reminiscences of the Whig party nom. passed into oblivion, and his authority descended ito. to the new chieftain, i and s With better quie, 3 and Better opinion, better Confirmation. And from that day forward the Whigs began slowly, but steadily ...

... had its Sir Robert Peel in Sidney Godolphin. Godolphin, too, came into power as a Tory, but soon became Whig, go in'' farther almost than any Whig had ever done before. The minor points of parallelism between the course of Queen Anne's and that of Queen ...

... that his sincere opinions are those T] ekpressed in the book. The greatest whig of our ci own time-perhaps the only capable and qualified tu exponent now surviving of the genuine whig tradi- ex tions-is surely worth listening to when he relates Ju the course ...

... moment renounced the name of Whig, 1 or separatetd his fortunes from those of his party, in order sis to allyihimselfrwith either Tory or Radical. He is the idol do ci yoar pure Whig. WhilebIelis speakitng, the old Whig he listens in a deep attention ...

... re vpon TIbiigsm. What a powerful crnirmation of the remark is afforded by the atrocities of the Whig Poor Law Aiendment Bill! Johnson hated the Whigs, fur he seemed to have known them well. Had the fine old fellow lived in our day, how he would have ...

... March 29, 1799, and began public life as a.Canningite, or Conservative Whig, and did not definitely join the Tories until he was thirty-five years of ave. But though nominally a Whig (for his family belonged to that party), his early speeches show in many ...