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... the part of the Whigs to obtain that explicit assertion of the de jare sovereignty of William and MIary, which they had failed to secure in tile Bill of Rights and in the Pvecogn-ion Act, is thus suminarised by the editors:- The Whigs, defeated in the ...

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... way than as an 31 ' imprudent sponter. Sydney Smith Wielded a M lighter bht far keener weapon. Providence- re: wrote the Whig humorist to Dear Abraham 'ri in his seventh Plymley Letter-Providence has m made the Foreign Secretary a light. jesting ...

MR DISRAELI AS A NOVELIST

... commercial code on the principles successfully negotiated by Lord Bolingbroke at Utrecht, and which, thoughbaffled at the time by a Whig Parliament, were subsequently and triumphantly vindicated by hispoiical pupil and heir, Mr Pitt; to govern Irela accor to the ...

THE SEPTEMBER MAGAZINES

... Bill', A are humorous and slplendidly sketched groupsI of three Tory secretaries (Strley, Peel,~ and '~Grahami), and three Whig ?? s tna, Russell, and.Nraiy. AFmu Germa ShC JWasadlen and I Courts of Justc ?? r fd moug the -other coiniuios to a most ...

LITERATURE

... more thon once reverted in fond reminiscence, to point a moral againsb more modern extrava- gance, as the time when Tory and Whig alike adstrove-and strove successfully-to reduce public expenditure and to maintain a balance on the right side. In_ 1841 ...

LITERATURE

... ut Ystb D Caroline. The memoirs close in anld QO'OCD dile secession of Lord Stanley and ve ~ James C~brahamn broke up the Whig Ministry, , Sed thne s rtorY or the remainder of Lord he gxseghthe, life, daring which he was a shrewd re 5nd ebare Sut wa~tcher ...

THE MAGAZINES

... prevent- ! aic.ulnes and waun or tact in ?? rt of them and though , ?''.strange dings from a congerles I cnn! wr;a i'i includes Whig maguates s i ?? lri tail, Lort Selbournie and Mir ? dtgo c nlrchlmen and earnest DLe- a i-;e ,s lrtl surprised that thin's ...

LITERATURE

... in that. What this country heartily ti desires is a consistent foreign policy, unaffected by any administrative see-saw of Whig or Tory. o] Very few people will agree with Mr Adams's apparent desire that with every new Foreign Is Minister there shoiuld ...

LITERATURE

... so gained remains as an inheritance to our bar of the present day -a most valuable I piece of patronage for Lords Advocate, Whig or Tory; but its tendency has been towards ease and. honour, while the Subntitute's office has been to. wards work and practical ...

LITERATURE

... niece of his own-the daughter of hid sister, who married a Tory gentleman, the only one of the family who had deviated from Whig principles either in love or politics. He orders his coach, and, taking Mrs Vizard along with him, goes to see for himself ...

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARY GRANVILLE.*

... marnl -eano for is-station, a Small'house in the country a o smaller in Polan readthbalteeenepsil for Queen Anne and the Whigs. - Little Mary was, b~orn in anl 1.700;'- and:-amoong -her early recollections wasi ant irruptionfa into the paternal Mansion ...

LITERATURE

... of detail for 1arlhrnnent to put right. They liad girt a few Conservativea in the High- a lands, but they called themselves Whigs. ?? 5- ter.) Tire Tories were so little tholght nf tciere that they had 'mealiged their plaid. (Laughterand n cheers.) He hoped ...