... WHIGS - - was then the term of reproach cast upon the persecuted. ThiF) some think, arose from the word wigg, applied to the thin Skimmed milk they were glad to drink in their wanderings. Others allege that it was an abbreviation of Whiggamores, as the ...

... High Church smooths its band with decorous delight. Woe to Walpole and the Whigs! Lord Bolingbroke, / The Senate's darling and the Church's pride, can return to England. But Walpole is not so artless a spider as to be destroyed by a wasp, whatever its ...

... baronet of that name, and Mr. Macaulay. The Whigs were reproached, not unjustly, with turning Edinburgh into a receptacle for their placemen and officials. But an undercurrent of Liberalism, too strong for the mere Whig mind, soon began to flow with some strength ...

... SOUTHANIPON STREET :—Social Notes. GAELIC ORIGIN OF WHIG AND Blackwood's Magazine. ' Whig ' first appears as a - Celtic epithet of contempt for the Covenanting Lowlander; but whether it is derived from whig, another name for whey,' or from . a sound used ...

... able and honest men who reflect its principles to men of great genius and high name, whether they be eloquent Whig essayists, or accomplished Whig lawyers. Mr. Moncreiff last week, in a speech addressed to his committee, took farewell of his constituents ...

... younger days, association with the Whigs could alone give scope to his active administrative power. The Conservatives had become all but defunct, and it was thought, after the passing of the Reform Bill, that the Whigs had got a lease of power for the next ...

... neighbour; and as his colleague appeared Adam Black, a respectable bookseller and a sturdy Liberal in his day, but hardened into a 'Whig and nothing more. The Independent or citizen party meanwhile had made several attempts to assert its superiority with but ...

... that will not insult any person in an interview, I care not whether they be Whig or Tory. lam an old King-Williatnite of 'BB and a Whig like him. Give me honest men—whether Whig or Tory—that know something of our principles, and I shall prefer them to those ...

... than Lord J. Russell, a nd the (treat Pe. ful Whig families, without whom no Whig Government can 1 1 v e e_ They can live for a long time without the great supporting them, but not without the great Whig f am ilies. 113 were more in favour of Lord Palmerston; ...

... side of the Whigs and those who were accused of favouring the cause of the Pretender. The fight commenced with athletic sports at Bicester in support of the Whig candidatures, and for eleven months nothing but village amusements for Whig or Tory prevailed ...

... LANSDOWNE was a type of that Whig party to which the nation has in this century been indebted for inestimable benefits. It was a marvellous mistake te - . suppose that there ever was anything revolutiopaq in. the views of the Whigs. Revolutionists are mess- ...

... his Merchant Taylors' Hall assertions. He spoke, for example, of his political opponents, by whom, of course, he meant the Whig party, having adopted certain liberal opinions, chiefly of Continental growth. The artifice of raising a prejudice against ...