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LITERARY BLUE-BOOK

... Heuse blue-book dispels many popular beliefs current in society. Thus the often-repeated story that Lord Macaulay had sold his Whig history to the Messrs. Longman for an annuity is to be upset by the Custom House fact that the old histolrian is the proprietor ...

THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL STATESMEN

... he was held to- be 'a practical states- mnan. For manv yyears one of the leading distinctions between the Tories and the Whigs has been, the for- iner have cried up practical opinions and measures, anide the latter theoretic ones. No men have declaim- ...

LITERARY NOTES AND GOSSIP

... the AcederrvoJ MI E EownD AnNor.nD will publish in the autumn the Diaries of George Howard, seventh Earl of Carlisie, the Whig statesman of thic middle of the century, who is best known in hi-tory 7s havinul been twice Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Th ...

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW ON MR. GLADSTONE

... de& own power, and that of those aho thougbh with him, may have hbeu ?? 2vitong. A lasting occupation of 'dfite, snub as the Whigs rjnjed after the death of Qoeea Arne,ard ?? ?? Bill, in wnich the subemee of an all-powerful. Minister swould not be menaced ...

OMNIA [ill]

... the watcb, See clearly tbat the cil ?? tiJ Can only reach us when wsrev- wen Ben's gloriou, policy of 6iwaae For this the Whigs wvre trn,-l - ?? No more with bw.i;g biL, tJ ;Pi- And Gladstoneafromz tfivw,:i a 'f Is lamed aS badly as Her.b.A Now turned ...

THE BIG FIGHT IN ARGYLL

... Lorn to Islay's Wsle, icn From Muck to Colousay, cb From Rum to Tobermory, -II The fiery cross was sped, _ e And roused up Whig and Tory . Pl Came the sons of Colin, Ono Came the sons of Callum, Po Came the big Mbic-M1acs iorg (impossible to spell ?? ...

LITERATURE

... changes, 'the lot k-fell upon Whig, which was 'very significative, as well as It ready; being vernacular in Scotland, from whence it was - borrowed, for corrupt and sour whey. Defoe accepts this i le derivation of Whig; and says.the use of it began in ...

LIFE OF SIR RICHARD

... of the rake and a little of the ht swindler. Nor is this all Sir Richard Ir has to answer for at the hands of Xn the great Whig historian. When whispering ae tongueshad poisoned truth and all but brokeup ey the life-long friendship between Addison ...

PERTH WOOL AND LAMB FAIR

... undet£-25.000. andl he hoas, among other bequests, left 1 I 000 to Mir. Ray, the Secretary to the Repeal As- sociation .-Northcrtt Whig. ...

THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... been lately favoured on the vexed question,-What, under present circumstances, should Reformers do? The veteran chief of the Whigs, wise by experience, and calm in his comparative seclusion from the jar and turmoilof thefray, judges more justlythan some ...

r -I I If? I 1 i 4l ■lll 1 Ilf i I A ; Fruits of the System. PAVER

... worthies were hired, for a purpose that will be seen immediately ; but being disowned by their empioyets, rvere put down in the Whig and Tory papers as “the rabble,” “the mob,” &c. &c. ! ! terms which, being afterwards used towards people of a different class ...