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... improved for over 4 million years… the technique of separation, or to use the politically correct term; tool-use. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Cha... ...e which will impregnate the female planetary-egg. The entire, international political race to get to the moon first: was merely a mechanical recrea... ...with the exception of the new recruits who had not yet taken part in a raiding party, or frequented a whore yet: literally all of Napoleon’s soldiers... ...nd will lead to chaos… and instability. Chaos is another code-word used by politicians and people in power. I myself have never seen this imagina... ...indlessly abiding by the civilized laws and regulations, you yourself become a party to every corruption of that system. Thoreau insisted that in or... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ad to whitewash everything about themselves. Until they all wore white false Whigs. Until they pomaded and sprinkled themselves with white flour, ... ...eir evil treasure… but it is perfectly fine! And legal for rich upper class Whigs and doctors to go seek out where these poor, lower class illegal ...

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...mately known to every man engaged in the hard practical work of Ameri- can political life. It is difficult to overstate how much it means to a nation ... ...oughout his entire life, and especially after he rose to leadership in his party, Lincoln was stirred to his depths by the sense of fealty to a lofty ... ...s an interesting distinction between the qualities needed for a successful political career in mod- ern society and those which lead to eminence in th... ...uld be a candidate for the Legislature again. Although he called himself a Whig, an ardent admirer of Henry Clay, his clever stump speeches 13 The Wr... ...ve been weak at that period; for he actually sought to obtain from the new Whig President, General Taylor, the place of Com- missioner of the General ... ...ple, broke forth in an utterance louder than ever. The bonds of accustomed party allegiance gave way. Antislavery Democrats and antislavery Whigs felt... ...g judgment and his conscientious statement of the truth, but the practical politicians were also right in their predic- tion of the immediate effect. ... ...the meagre outfit of this coming leader of men, at the age when the future British Prime Minister or statesman emerges from the university as a double... ...barrel to each of my other generals.” The other must be as pleasing to the British as to the American ear. When pressed again on other grounds to get ...

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... of the Algerian wars proposed to make a clean march to the capital of the British Empire at the head of ten thou- sand men; which seems a small quant... ...raigned the parliamentary Opposition for having inflated her to serve base party purposes. The Opposition challenged the allegations of Government, po... ...d not hear my knock at your door.’ Now, could he trust her? The widow of a British officer killed nobly fighting for his country in India, was a perso... ...mily, they preferred the provincial state of splendid squires to Court and political honours. They were renowned shots, long-limbed stalking sportsmen... ...ntleman, in mind a mediaeval baron, in politics a crotchety unintelligible Whig. He inherited the estate of Holdesbury, on the borders of Hampshire an... ...f a great day. At one time he was a hot Parliamentarian, calling himself a Whig, called by the Whigs a Radical, called by the Radicals a Tory, and ver... ...nd very happy in fighting them all round. This was during the decay of his party, before the Liberals were defined. A Liberal deprived him of the seat... ...hus, although King and Lords prove the existence of Commons in days of the political del- uge almost syllogistically, the example of not including one... ...siness that helped hunting-men a stage above sportsmen, for numbers of the politicians she was acquainted with were hunting-men, yet something more by...

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...gle) the greatness of the power of Russia, which was still in those days a British bogey; in making Belgium the battle-ground in a coming struggle bet... ...e lines of the war news, diplomatic disputations, threats and accusations, political wranglings and stories of hardship and cruelty that now fill our ... ...uld find in the divines and dignitaries of the Vatican, of the Russian and British official churches, or of any other of the multitudinous Christian s... ...e sufficiently occupied by the affairs of the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the se... ...damen- tally the princes, the diplomatists, the lawyers, the statesmen and politicians, the nationalists and suspicious people, since it gives them ye... ...o be discussed. So far we have said scarcely a word about the prospects of party politics and the problems of government that arise as the State cease... ...? pensable. It is not in the clash and manoeuvres and mutual correction of party, but in the essential conflict of political authority on the one hand... ...week-end conferences, by the political great. He takes his orders from the Whig peers or the Tory peers. At his greatest he advises them respectfully.... ...an but a renegade Englishman of the Englishman-hating 144 What Is Coming? Whig type, Mr. Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who carried the Gobineau theory...

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...hich occasion he spent a day or two in Ayrshire among Colonel Whitefoord’s Whig friends, as pleasantly and as good- humouredly as if all had been at p... ...e at night, and left it in the morning, he was espied during the dawn by a party of the enemy, who fired at and pursued him. The fugitive being fortun... ...d uncle to whose title and estate he was presumptive heir. A difference in political opinions had early separated the Baronet from his younger brother... ...ley of W averley-Honour, suc- cessor to a princely estate, and to extended political connexions as head of the county interest in the shire where it l... ...ecantation at the be- ginning of his career, and entered life as an avowed Whig, and friend of the Hanover succession. The ministry of George the Firs... ...eekly Letter. [Long the oracle of the country gentle- men of the high Tory party. The ancient News-Letter was written in manuscript and copied by cler... ...e world to which Waverley-Honour formed the centre: but the more judicious politicians of this microcosm augured yet worse consequences to Richard Wav... ...al cause of their being written, without a glance into the interior of the British Cabinet at the period in question. The Ministers of the day happene... ...at he protested he could beat any known march or point of war known in the British army, and had accordingly commenced with ‘Dumbarton’s Drums,’ when ...

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...ist- ence for making things clear, counteracting hostile sugges- tion, the British official organisations are comparatively in- effective; but what is... ...btle critic, calling in upon me after brav- ing the wintry seas to see the British fleet; M. Joseph Reinach follows them presently upon the same erran... ...n upon the Carso I contrived to lose during the temporary confusion of our party by the arrival and explosion of another prospective souvenir in our c... ... I said certain things to him about the difference in com- plexity between political life in Great Britain and the colo- nies, that he was manifestly ... ...of its difficulties and perplexities. Here on the Adriatic side there were political entangle- ments that by comparison made our western after-the-war... ... propaganda of the great Pow- ers. I have a prejudice against that blessed Whig “principle of nationality,” but the King of Italy was not to be drawn ... ... Alexander Severus, and later Aquileia brought Attila near to despair. Our party alighted; we inspected a 24 War and the Future very old mosaic floor... ... there is so much big work clamouring to be done?” “That,” I said, “is the Whig tradition.” When they pressed me further, I said: “I am really the que... ...” He reflected, and some disagreeable memory darkened his face. “Under the politicians?” he said. I took the train of thought N had set going abroad w...

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...e in Dr. Hull. Have you ever got in the way of consulting with McKinley in political matters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The ... ...en of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of 1856, in your district: Counties. Counties. Bu... ...e Douglas, and such were the opinions of the leading men of the Democratic Party. Even as late as the spring of 1856 Mr. Buchanan said, a short time s... ...t will be seen that slavery is agitated in the religious as well as in the political world. Judge Douglas is very much afraid in the triumph that the ... ... were desirous of regulating their own concerns in their own way, that the British Government should not interfere; that at one 50 The Writings of Ab... ...50 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five time they struggled with the British Government to be permit- ted to exclude the African slave trade,—if... ...ty of my writing a letter upon the subject. I was an old Henry-Clay-Tariff Whig. In old times I made more speeches on that subject than any other. I h... ...can join in and establish it on a more firm and durable basis. We, the Old Whigs, have been entirely beaten out on the tariff question, and we shall n... ...appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you is ...

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...hington, a prestige suffi- cient to bind his successors to his wishes. The political leaders of the country have done what they could for Washington. ... ...fused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great among the cities of the earth. They are ... ... about through the Patent-office I also found a hospital for sol- diers. A British officer was with me who pronounced it to be, in its kind, very good... ... America V ol. 2 facts, was not the case. I had gone down the river with a party of ladies, and we were opposite to Mount Vernon; but on that occasion... ...re all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trollope ern party. Through the lines, into Virginia, they could not go at all. Up to Wa... ... impede the celerity of the work to be done, and that a closer copy of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the America... ... so 58 North America V ol. 2 as to include the leaders among the Northern politicians. They never begrudged to these assistants a full share of the g... ... this there has undoubtedly been treachery as well as rebellion. Had these politicians been honest—though the political growth of Washington has hardl... ...Vir- ginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. As Radicals in England be- come simple Whigs when they are admitted into public offices, so did Mr. Lincoln with h...

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...inaction. For the Progress had intended to do great things for the Liberal Party,—or rather for political liberality in general,—and had in truth done... ...gress had intended to do great things for the Liberal Party,—or rather for political liberality in general,—and had in truth done little or nothing. I... ... been got up with con- siderable enthusiasm, and for a while certain fiery politicians had believed that through the instrumentality of this insti- tu... ... men were pretentious puppies. It was, however, not to be doubted that the party of Progress had become slack, and that the Liberal politicians of the... ...en one of those who had hoped to find in the club a stepping-stone to high political life, and who now talked often with idle energy of the need for o... ...aid Lopez, ‘I can conceive no vainer object of ambition than a seat in the British Parliament. What does any man gain by it? The few are successful wo... ...ver sat upon the English bench, or a more presumptu- ous politician in the British Parliament, than Lord Ramsden. The real struggle, however, lay in t... ... both parties. I would not wish to see every Lord Lieutenant of a county a Whig.’ In his enthusiasm the old Duke went back to his old phraseology. ‘Bu... ...young man under the guid- ance of this or that elder man. He has come of a Whig family, as was my case,—or from some old Tory stock; and loyalty keeps...

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... of Christendom as to the impossibility of ever suppressing the antagonist party by mere force of arms. I am not meaning, however, to utter any opinio... ...f national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the... ...nsecrated function, of publishing and diffusing through the land the great political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, and Other Papers ... .... But the Dream knows best; and the Dream, I say again, is the responsible party. 4. “The Spanish Nun.”* —There are some narratives, which, though pur... ...th social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political Justice;” not the second and emas- culated edition in octavo, but... ... all things despised dreaming fainéans (such, for instance, as we find the politicians, or even the conspirators, of Italy, Spain, and Germany, whose ... ... Or do we grind her still?” Pretty much the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op... ...who recognizes them as expressions of a uniform system of dealing. A great whig lord (Earl C——) happened (it may be ten years ago) to present himself ... ...ey regard it, in a tory mouth, as having some lurking reference to his own whig politics. If so, he must have been still more surprised to hear of ano...

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... leading article of the school of the Charivari. The chief of the moderate party, a member of the municipal council, sent for the journalist and said ... ...very Monday and Friday. On Monday they gave a dinner, on Friday an evening party. Thus, in twelve years, what a sum must have accumu- lated from twent... ...r of a Havana cigar, eyes of fire, Armenian eyelids with lashes of very un-British length, hair blacker than 32 Albert Savarus black; and under this ... ...ked his life and fortune because I was a Liberal! for he does not share my political opinions. Is not that love, Monsieur Frenchman?— But they are lik... ...greed. “Ten months ago, when you saw me so gay and con- tented, writing my political articles, I was in despair; I fore- 59 Balzac saw my fate, at th... ... the present order of things, after the pattern of the T ories against the Whigs in England. This doctrine was not acceptable to the Legitimists, who,... ...er Branch were to return,” said he to an old states- man of seventy, “what politicians would they find?”— “Berryer, alone on his bench, does not know ...

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... the pavement. We have not to ask what he judged. But Dorset Wilmers was a political opponent of the eminent Peer who yields the second name to the sc... ...of light and easy dentistry. He has no belief, no disbelief; names the pro-party and the con; recites the case, and discreetly, over-discreetly; and p... ...ter Is- land there was a public Ball, to celebrate the return to Erin of a British hero of Irish blood, after his victorious Indian campaign; a mighty... ...end bore such reminders meekly. They were read- ers of books of all sorts, political, philosophical, economical, romantic; and they mixed the diverse ... ...r limitation had it been de- fined, stood no chance with him. T ory versus Whig, he tried a wrestle, and was thrown. They agreed on the topic of Wine.... ...ord D. and Mrs. W . whipped the hot pursuit. The moral repute of the great Whig lord and the beauty of the lady composed inflammable material. ‘Are yo... ...sion to chastise the presumptuous individual, unless it be the leader of a party, therefore a power; for they respect a power. Redworth knew their qua... ... not take it as the compensation for their departure.’ The Bull’s Head, or British Jury of T welve, with the wig on it, was faced during the latter ha... ...lan- guage. Otherwise we have it coarse—anything but a repro- duction. You politicians despise the little distinctions “twixt tweedledum and tweedlede...

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...ose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; and very large full-bottomed wigs were just beginning ... ...year 1801, what time the Corsican upstart menaced our shores. A recruiting-party and captain of Cutts’s regiment (which had been so mangled at Blenhei... ... having been during the course of his life pretty generally engaged in the British service, he had a tolerably fair claim to the majestic title of Bri... ...least, we will have nothing that shall be mistaken for virtues. And if the British public (after calling for three or four editions) shall give up, no... ...d swindling—as could be shown were we not inclined to deal mildly with the Whigs; and this Enlistment Act, which, in order to maintain the British glo... ... the town, where he might deposit his bride. In the kitchen of this inn, a party of men were drinking; and, as Mrs. Hayes declined, with a proper sens... ...d make out that Lord Lyndhurst is, in point of prin- ciple, eloquence, and political honesty, no better than Mr. O’Connell,—not, I say, arguing this d... ...ve all of us, no doubt, employed in our time. How often have we,—we poets, politicians, phi- losophers, family-men,—found charming excuses for our own...

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...ton himself endured greater physical hard- ships than if he had remained a British subject, yet he was a happy man because he had engaged in benefitin... ...s the root of the rebellion, or at least its sine qua non. The ambition of politicians may have instigated them to act, but they would have been impot... ...through- out a period of half a century. It has, at the same time, excited political ambitions and apprehensions which have produced a profound agitat... ...y. The great interior region bounded east by the Alleghenies, north by the British domin- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line alo... ...eople, and will have 50,000,000 within fifty years if not prevented by any political folly or mistake. It contains more than one third of the country ... ... nec- essary to ascertain the amount of indemnification due to the injured party. The United States consul-general at Havana was consequently instruct... ...as directed, in view of the occupation of the capital by the revolutionary party and of the uncertainty of the civil war, not to present his credentia... ...UARTERS ARMY POTOMAC, April 9, 1863. HON. SECRETARY OF THE NA VY: Richmond Whig of the 8th has no telegraphic despatches from Charleston, but has the ...

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...d the meaning of the word politics, and has given up trying to distinguish Whigs from Tories; but take her on her own politics, ask her about other me... ...uspicious lover were not more easy to offend than a meeting of indifferent politicians! Nay, and the orator treads in a beaten round; the matters he d... ...rguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon. They are used in pure s... ...herein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy ... ... pinch, is irrevocable ruin. And yet we go spinning through it all, like a party for the Derby. Perhaps the reader remembers one of the humorous devic... ... of bagmen in the country, but human beings are reckoned by number only in political constitutions. And the Admirals are typi- cal in the full force o... ...are more valuable to England than any material benefit in all the books of political economy between Westminster and Birmingham. Greenville chewing wi... ...red, two things must be attended to that require no proof: FIRST, that the British constitution is the best that ever was since the creation of the wo...

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...r tainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of politics and party. This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not ... ...rding to my intentions. I desired you would let me know, by a let ter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders... ...y with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me, “whether I was a whig or tory?” Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him ... ...recommends to an historian: I would hide the frailties and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and beauties in the most advantag... ...ankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.” The learning of this people is very defective,... ...proposes some improvements, which are honourably received. I n the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing... ...great acute ness, containing many observations, both curious and useful for politicians; but, as I conceived, not altogether complete. This I venture... ...arous people! But this description, I confess, does by no means af fect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom...

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...ish readers should grow skittish, I ‘ve bribed my grandmother’s review—the British. I sent it in a letter to the Editor, Who thank’d me duly b... ...of those. As for the ladies, I have nought to say, A wanderer from the British world of fashion, Where I, like other ‘dogs, have had my day,’ ... ...e. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Four” 114 By one of these, the buffo of the party, Juan was told about their curious case; For although destine... ...corporal Some Cossacques, hovering like hawks round a hill, Had met a party towards the twilight’s fall, One of whom spoke their tongue—or we... ...of that; and if we don’t, ‘T will be because our notion is not high Of politicians and their double front, Who live by lies, yet dare not bold... ... hisses? Where are the Grenvilles? Turn’d as usual. Where My friends the Whigs? Exactly where they were. Where are the Lady Carolines and France... ... without being new: Nought ‘s permanent among the human race, Except the Whigs not getting into place. I have seen Napoleon, who seem’d quite a ... ...ect much more— But my best canto, save one on astronomy, Will turn upon ‘political economy.’ That is your present theme for popularity: Now ... ...fought their fox hunt o’er again, And then retreated soberly—at ten. The politicians, in a nook apart, Discuss’d the world, and settled all th...

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...r shapes; nay, sometimes on charms more worthless than these, and less the party’s own; The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding 29 s... ...lf of the species. In enjoying, therefore, such place of rendezvous, the British fair ought to esteem themselves more happy than any of their foreig... ... from self interest, should show towards them. But perhaps there may be a political reason for it: in finding one of a truly be nevolent disposition... ... a different kind. No longer bore this Amazon the shameful flight of her party. She stopt short, and, calling aloud to all who fled, spoke as follow... ...son. There now ensued between the squire and the parson a most excellent political discourse, framed out of newspa pers and political pamphlets; in... ...d avoid, if possible, treating this matter ludicrously, lest grave men and politicians, whom I know to be offended at a jest, may cry pish at it; but,... ...come one of us weak women, than that wise sex which heaven hath formed for politicians. Indeed, brother, you would make a fine plenipo to negotiate wi... ... overhear you telling her she must behave like a princess? You have made a Whig of the girl; and how should her father, or anybody else, expect any ob...

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...nd if he were not asked to be chairman he would refuse the use of it for a political meeting. Josiah Graves told Mr. Carey that he might do as he chos... ...s notice whenever she was asked. She often sang still when there was a tea-party at the vicarage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask t... ...d been very angry , and threatened to prosecute the leaders of the Liberal party in Blackstable. He made up his mind now that nothing Josiah Graves sa... ...hange of yokes; he had been expelled from Geneva for it was not known what political offences. Philip looked upon him with puzzled surprise; for he wa... ... He had ambi- tions that were vaguely political, he described himself as a Whig, and he was put up for a club which was of Liberal but gentlemanly fla... ... not help seeing how small his attainments were beside the American’s, his British pertinacity , his wounded vanity (perhaps they are the same thing),... ...th hair - dressers and garcons de cafe; I translate wretched books for the British public, and write articles upon contemptible pictures which de- ser... ... wives who dined with us, and the literary stock- brokers, and the budding politicians; oh, she was a charming woman. She made me go to church in a si...

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...gument with some fair one of a different principle. Or, if the critic be a Whig, and consequently dislikes such kind of similes, as being too favourab... ...nt, he said, had a right to refuse, but not retract when given, unless the party himself, by some conduct of his, gave a reason. “The doctor having ma... ... “About a week after my arrival it was my fortune to be ordered on a sally party, in which my left leg was broke with a musket-ball; and I should most... ... 458 Amelia Chapter ii Chapter ii Chapter ii Chapter ii Chapter ii Matters political. BEFORE WE RETURN to Booth we will relate a scene in which Dr Har... ... it is high time to amend it: or else it is easy to foresee that Roman and British liberty will have the same fate; for corruption in the body politic... ... you are too well acquainted with the world to be told that the conduct of politicians is not formed upon the principles of religion.” “I am very sorr...

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...IANITY Y Y Y Y, AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GA... ...ICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MO GAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT VEMENT VEMENT VEMENT VEMENT................................ ...any separate choice of your own, on becoming a Roman citizen, you become a party to the Roman worship.’ For an idolatrous religion to proselytize, wou... ...ning was, that he gave a dinner. And not only was every sacrifice a dinner party, but every dinner party was a sacrifice. This was strictly so in the ... ...But Cowper would not have said this, had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of Panshanger. Every Whig thought it a duty occasionally to look... ...ked as unprosperous a speculation as Dr. Darwin’s scheme for improving our British climate by hauling out all the ice- bergs from the polar basin in s... ...he Hindoo races, now so entirely dependent upon our wisdom and justice, we British* immediately, by our solemnity of investigation, tes- *It may be th... ...nt of a few weeks too soon, by which the Fates cut short the thread of the Whig ministry in 1807. Certainly, for a Romish or an English bishop to be a... ...y withdraw from the mission with which God had charged him, far less could politicians and magistrates under any allegation of public inconveniences p...

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... do not wish to join in your proposal of a new plan for the selection of a Whig candidate for Congress because: 1st. I am entirely satisfied with the ... ...Baker were successively nominated and elected to Congress; and because the Whigs of the district are well acquainted with the system, and, so far as I... ...save only that of slavery. So far as I can perceive, by such union neither party need yield any- thing on the point in difference between them. If the... ...line, I shall be pleased. Yours with respect, A. LINCOLN. 1846 REQUEST FOR POLITICAL SUPPORT TO Dr. ROBERT BOAL. SPRINGFIELD, January 7, 1846. Dr. ROB... ...ced by the President. I admit that such a vote should not be given in mere party wantonness, and that the one given is justly censurable if it have no... ...hould choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him,—I see... ...s, how could you stop him? You may say to him,—I see no probability of the British invading us”; but he will say to you, “Be silent: I see it, if you ... ...rom which I believe the two former banks to have been free. YOUNG v.s. OLD—POLITICAL JEAL- OUSY TO W. H. HERNDON. WASHINGTON, July 10, 1848. DEAR WILL... ...owed by friends, and the most dreaded by opponents, of all living American politicians. In all the great ques- tions which have agitated the country, ...

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... Autobiography the eldest son of James Mill, the author of the History of British India . My father, the son of a petty tradesman and (I believe) sma... ...nce of Livy, and upheld, to the best of my ability, the Ro man Democratic party. A few years later, in my contempt of my childish efforts, I destroye... ... was in this same year, 1819, that he took me through a complete course of political economy. His loved and intimate friend, Ricardo, had shortly befo... ...o, had shortly before published the book which formed so great an epoch in political economy; a book which would never have been published or written,... ...blic and private. He was acquainted with many of the chiefs of the Liberal party, and I saw various noteworthy persons while staying at this house; am... ... facility and skill. From this time the Chronicle ceased to be the merely Whig organ it was before, and during the next ten years became to a conside... ..., entered into a complete analysis, from the Radical point of view, of the British Constitution. He held up to notice its thoroughly aristocratic char... ...opular support. He showed how this idea was realized in the conduct of the Whig party, and of the Edinburgh Review as its chief literary organ. He de... ...ish precedent for such a proceeding: and the profound ignorance of English politicians and the En glish public concerning all social phenomena not ge...

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...language, that whenever an abuse becomes oppressive enough to persuade our party parliamentarians that something must be done, they immediately set to... ...nterests on which they have to sit in judgment and, when their members are party politicians, by the votes at the back of those inter- ests; but this ... ...ts on which they have to sit in judgment and, when their members are party politicians, by the votes at the back of those inter- ests; but this unfort... ...governing bodies over theatres. Fifth, there were the playwrights, without political power, but with a very close natural monopoly of a talent not onl... ... know what the author is driving at, may have no knowledge of the ethical, political, and sectarian controversies which may form the intellec- tual fa... ...s influenced public opinion; but those who imagine that it could influence British governments little know how remote from public opinion and how full... ...m public opinion and how full of their own little family and party affairs British governments, both Liberal and Unionist, still are. The censorship s... ...th en- thusiasm, because the word toleration has been moralized by eminent Whigs; but what he means by 26 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet toleration ... ...gicides of 1649 to see themselves, as it certainly helped gen- erations of Whig statesmen to see them, in a heroic light; and it unquestionably vindi...

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... the enemy had done to him. Very probably the Navy is the exception to the British sys- tem; its officers are rescued from the dull homes and dull sch... ...rn to speak French. Heaven alone knows what they do with their brains! The British reading and thinking public probably does not number fifty thousand... ...t forces of transport are already straining against the limits of existing political areas. Every country contains now an increasing ingredient of une... .... G . Wells cal life, especially State life as distinguished from national political life, is degraded because of the natural and inevi- table apathy ... ...f a large portion of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice wha... ...national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above party and above creed and sect has, we are told, taken hold of his imaginat... ...nce then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- tions of party government and a legacy of intellectual and social heaviness, has bee... ...e citizen woman as though it had never entered his mind. He had indeed the Whig temperament, and it manifested itself down even to the practice of rea... ...any, which still prevails among the more representative sur- vivors of the Whig tradition. He argues ably against private property, but no thought of ...

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... under company of Monsieur Blaise. Presently, of an early morning, all the party set forth for the country, namely, my Lord Viscount and the other gen... ..., Doctor,” says my lord; at which the Doctor made another low bow, and the party moved on to- wards a grand house that was before them, with many gray... ...eep pretty generally), Esmond read many volumes of the works of the famous British Divines of the last age, and was familiar with W ake and Sherlock, ... ... the powers that be, as Esmond was always in opposition to them. Tom was a Whig, while Esmond was a Tory. Tom never missed a lecture, and capped the p... ... them into revolt and enmity against the natural law of love. I have heard politicians and coffee-house wiseacres talking over the newspaper, and rail... ...her articles of faith, which his fond benefactress set him. Had she been a Whig, he had been one; had she followed Mr. Fox, and turned Quaker, no doub... ...mbling down the stairs when the fife and drum call you, and huzzah for the British Grenadiers—do you take account that these items go to make up the a... ...d more closely than ever, ’twas known that he was animated not merely by a political hatred, but by personal rage against the old French King: the Imp... ... wisest, the most pious and learned men and women in the world. As for the political question, in that Mr. Esmond could agree with the Father much mor...

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...two centuries, as many men of talent, civil and military, and of literary, political, and profes- sional eminence, as any house in Scotland, first ros... ...e Lord Rutherford, who was not acceptable to them either on account of his political prin- ciples or his want of fortune. The young couple broke a pie... ...d, and returned not again. If the last Lord Rutherford was the unfortunate party, he must have been the third who bore that title, and who died in 168... ... less unfortunate lover. CHAPTER I By Cauk and keel to win your bread, Wi’ whigmaleeries for them wha need, Whilk is a gentle trade indeed T o carry t... ...g what was probable than affirming anything posi- tively, they asked which party was likely to have the advan- tage in stating and enforcing the claim... ...your noble ancestors hae been these three hundred years, and never asked a Whig’s leave. Sorry to see the Lord of Ravenswood at ane o’ his ain castles... ...and Tory, and when these nick- names shall only be used among coffee-house politicians, as ‘slut’ and ‘jade’ are among apple-women, as cant terms of i... ... alludes to a revolution in the Scottish privy council, rather than in the British kingdoms.” “Oh, confusion to your state tricks!” exclaimed Bucklaw—... ...f Ravenswood were liable, under the Treaty of Union, to be reviewed by the British House of Peers, a court of equity of which the Lord Keeper felt an ...

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... said one class. “No T ory for our translator of Homer,” cried the zealous Whigs, “Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,” growled Grub Street... ...are- less about conserving. He is neither an infidel nor a Chris- tian; no Whig, but no very ardent Tory either. He seems to wish to support morality,... ...ject of the third epistle of the first, which treats of man in his social, political, and religious capacity. But this part the poet after- wards conc... ...nt in our follies and our sins, Here honest Nature ends as she begins. Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last; As ... ...ch would spoil! ‘Sir, Spain has sent a thousand jars of oil; Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door; A hundred oxen at your leveë roar.’ Poor a... ...d, ashamed to see Senates degenerate, patriots disagree, And nobly wishing party-rage to cease, T o buy both sides, and give thy country peace. ... ...ds your breasts with ancient ardour rise, And calls forth Roman drops from British eyes. Virtue confess’d in human shape he draws, What Plato thought,... ... abused all, even to women, and whose prostituted papers (for one or other party, in the unhappy divisions of their country) have in- sulted the falle... ...he coveting her have occa- sioned in that society where (according to this political calcu- lator) nine in ten of all ages have their concubines! We h...

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...ever, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political principles in which he was edu- cated, and of which he ever retai... ... Simpson, Mr. Levett, Captain Garrick, father of the great ornament of the British stage; but above all, Mr. Gilbert Walmsley, Register of the Preroga... ...s only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference o... ...ith contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and ... ... who had practised his own precepts of oeconomy for sev- eral years in the British capital. He assured Johnson, who, I suppose, was then meditating to... ... play came to be thus graced by the pen of a person then so eminent in the political world. Notwithstanding all the support of such per- formers as Ga... ... the fire place was anciently al- ways in the middle of the room, till the Whigs removed it on one side.”—About this time there had been an execution ... ...d affluence of conversation; but I would not talk to him of the Rockingham party.’ Goldsmith. ‘But, Sir, when people live together who have something ... ... to a gentleman from that country, on the subject of an union which artful Politicians have often had in view—’Do not make an union with us, Sir. We s...

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...eemed friend of Lady Lufton’s. And Mrs Arabin, the dean’s wife, was of the party, though the distance from Barchester to Framley is long, and the road... ... division of the county of Barsetshire, which, as all the world knows, is, politically speaking, as true blue a county as any in England. There have b... ...I regret to say, that men now reckon Lord Lufton. Not that he is a violent Whig, or perhaps that is a Whig at all. But he jeers and sneers at the old ... ...ision of Barsetshire. But this Western Division can boast none of the fine political at- tributes which grace its twin brother. It is decidedly Whig, ... ... fine political at- tributes which grace its twin brother. It is decidedly Whig, and is almost governed in its politics by one or two great Whig famil... ...perspicacious. Mr Harold Smith was not person- ally a popular man with any party, though some judged him to be eminently useful. He was laborious, wel... ...o very highly of the vicar of Framley, that she does begrudge him to those politicians at Chaldicotes. ’ ‘But, Justinia, the bishop will be there, you... ... jocundities. He had an idea that he could in about three minutes talk the British world into civilizing New Guinea, and that the world of Barsetshire... ...as, ’ he said, ‘the most peculiar characteristic of the present era in the British islands that those who were high placed before the world in rank, w...

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... carried. My wish is to describe, as well as I can, the present social and political state of the country. This I should have attempted, with more per... ...rd it as a part of her work to dilate on the nature and operation of those political arrangements which had pro- duced the social absurdities which sh... ...e pangs which Nature calls upon mothers to endure. As was the necessity of British opposition to American independence, so was the necessity of Northe... ...ration gave violent offense to the North, and has been taken as indicating British sympathy with the cause of the seceders. I am not going to explain—... ...y of State to declare openly that England intended to side either with one party or with the other, or else to remain neutral between them. I had hear... ...er of the cause and ground for revolu- tion, it is so very easy for either party to put in a plea that shall be satisfactory to itself! Mr. and Mrs. J... ...s the component parts of one nation. Such, I take it, is the belief of all politicians in Europe, and of many of those who live across the water. But ... ...t that treaties must necessarily be null and void through the falseness of politicians. 26 North America V ol. 1 “And what will England do for cotton... ...the Republican party, Bell and Everett also were the candidates of the old Whig, conservative party. Their ex- press theory was this—that the question...

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...pear to have seen what has not been distinctly perceptible to the opposite party—that the break up of the Liberals means the defection of the old Whig... ...ite party—that the break up of the Liberals means the defection of the old Whigs in permanence, heralding the establishment of a powerful force agains... ...a pause in the strife, unless when the Radical game is played ‘to dish the Whigs,’ and the Tories are now fast bound down by their incorporation of th... ...nding the Celt, but owing to our system, suitable enough to us, of rule by Party, which puts perpetually a shifting hand upon the reins, and invites t... ..., in fine, we behold through History the Irish malady treated as a form of British constitutional gout. Parliament touched on the Irish only when the ... ...p a vote into the ballot-box. As for the prominent 10 Miscellaneous Prose politicians who have displaced their rivals partly on the strength of an im... ...magined in English hands? The braver exemplar for grappling with monstrous political tasks is Cavour, and he would not have hinted at the iron method ... ...e should prepare to start it cordially , cordially assist it. Thought- ful political minds regard the measure as a backward step; yet conceiving but a...

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...t of Peelism in the latter; and then, too, the residence of two such great Whig mag- nates as the Duke of Omnium and the Earl De Courcy in that locali... ...had married no other than Lady Arabella De Courcy, the sister of the great Whig earl who lived at Courcy Castle in the west; that earl who not only ha... ...ade to believe that much of the policy of England’s rulers depended on the political intrigues of England’s women. She was one who would fain be doing... ...f as best he might for the blue looks with which he was greeted by his own party, and took his revenge by con- sorting more thoroughly than ever with ... ...y, and took his revenge by con- sorting more thoroughly than ever with his political ad- versaries. Foolishly, like a foolish moth, he flew to the bri... ...ntry as had always been collected on these former gala doings. Indeed, the party at Greshamsbury was not a large one, and consisted chiefly of Lady de... ...and some men’s hearts beat quickly enough. To be or not to a member of the British Parliament is a question of very considerable moment in a man’s min... ...o be paid for; no 198 Dr Thorne carriages furnished; no ribbons supplied. British voters were to vote, if vote they would, for the love and respect t... ...te purity all political delin- quency is abominable in the eyes of British politicians; but no delinquency is so abominable than the venality at elect...

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... and per- haps liked; but his loving and his liking had been exclu- sively political. He had so habituated himself to devote his mind and his heart to... ... Lady Mary Palliser. He had come back to England somewhat before the ducal party, and the pleasures and occupations of London life had not abated his ... ...ering the House of Commons, if he did enter it, as one of the Conservative party. This had been a terrible blow to the Duke; and he be- lieved that it... ...natural enough—at any rate, was not dis- graceful; that he should have his political creed suffi- ciently at heart to be able to persuade another man,... ...ted. Lord Silverbridge was to be met at Silverbridge by various well-known politicians from the neighbourhood, and Major Tifto was greatly elated by t... ...ught to regard him as a fit son of his father and a worthy specimen of the British political nobility. Struck by serious reflection of this nature he ... ...ertain people ought to be Tories and that other certain people ought to be Whigs. What does your father say about it?’ ‘My father wishes me to be in t... ...sentaneous action to carry any re- form. The reforming or Liberal party in British politics had thus stumbled,—and stumbled till it fell. And now ther... ... whose estates were large and unembarrassed. The late lord, who had been a Whig of the 178 The Duke’s Children old fashion, had been the Duke’s frien...

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...n Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Not long after his settlement in Pennsylvania, my gran... ...Mayor of Georgetown. He supported Jackson for the Presidency; but he was a Whig, a great admirer of Henry Clay, and never voted for any other democrat... ...the country ruined 8 Personal Memoirs beyond recovery when the Democratic party lost control in 1860. Her family, which was large, inherited her view... ... war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June, 1821, my father, Jesse R. Grant, m... ...the same way. The second brother died before the rebellion began; he was a Whig, and afterwards a Republican. His oldest brother was a Republican and ... ...t of this incident since when I have heard the noise of a few disappointed politicians who had deserted their associates. There are always more of the... ... very small percentage of the whole population. 61 U. S. Grant CHAPTER IX POLITICAL INTRIGUE—BUENA VISTA— MOVEMENT AGAINST VERA CRUZ— SIEGE AND CAPTU... ...T AGAINST VERA CRUZ— SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF VERA CRUZ THE MEXICAN WA R was a political war, and the administra- tion conducting it desired to make party... ...ination of the war, but also because foreign governments, particularly the British Government, were constantly threatening that unless ours could main...

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...d under Cromwell, but afterwards conformed, and managed to come out of all political troubles as the proprietor of a respectable family estate. Young ... ... a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with political economy and the keeping of saddle horses: a man would naturally t... ...thea felt a little more uneasy than usual. In the beginning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magist... ...I shall tell everybody that you are going to put up for Middlemarch on the Whig side when old Pinkerton resigns, and that Casaubon is going to help yo... ...oyed this prophetic sketch—“what I expect as an independent man. As to the Whigs, a man who goes with the thinkers is not likely to be hooked on by an... ...igs, a man who goes with the thinkers is not likely to be hooked on by any party. He may go with them up to a certain point—up to a certain point, you... ... and Young. must trust a little to Providence and be generous. It’s a good British feeling to try and raise your family a little: in my opinion, it’s ... ...ay stay a long while there in spite of professional accomplishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility between scientific insight and f... ...oice. Nothing, had done instead— not the opera, or the converse of zealous politicians, or the flattering reception (in dim corners) of his new hand in...

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...d under Cromwell, but afterwards conformed, and managed to come out of all political troubles as the proprietor of a respectable family estate. Y oung... ... a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with political economy and the keeping of saddle-horses: a man would naturally t... ...ea felt a little more uneasy than usual. In the begin- ning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magist... ...shall tell everybody that you are go- ing to put up for Middlemarch on the Whig side when old Pinkerton resigns, and that Casaubon is going to help yo... ...yed this prophetic sketch— ”what I expect as an independent man. As to the Whigs, a man who goes with the thinkers is not likely to be hooked on by an... ...igs, a man who goes with the thinkers is not likely to be hooked on by any party. He may go with them up to a certain point—up 48 Middlemarch to a ce... ...rehand:—one must trust a little to Providence and be generous. It’s a good British feeling to try and raise your family a little: in my opinion, it’s ... ... stay a long while there in spite of professional accom- plishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility be- tween scientific insight an... ...voice. Nothing, had done instead—not the opera, or the converse of zealous politicians, or the flattering reception (in dim corners) of his new hand i...

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...n July they found four or five urns of unbaked clay in one barrow—of early British make, very coarse, all either full of black earth or calcined bones... ... of the maniples; but alas! on being sent, in 1891, to be inspected at the British Museum, it was pronounced to be one of a cinquecento series of the ... ...rbourne with their feathers scraped off. On 3rd September 1658, the family party at Hursley was broken up by the unexpected death of the Protector. He... ... and was the last who rode in procession on the 9th of November. Both were Whigs, though the Jacobite Lord Mayor, whose support was reck- oned on by t... ...ay be interesting to note that her son re- membered being at a Twelfth-day party where Jane Austen drew the character of Mrs. Candour, and assumed the... ...rsity of Oxford, from first to last, through all the waves and weathers of political and personal bitterness, he re- tained the trust of friend and op... ...ion. With change of time comes also change of men; and the states- men and politicians of the new world, whatever their merits or demerits, will proba... ...y culture, the fastidious taste, the independence of thought, the union of political life with county associations—bound up as they are in this case b...