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1. Obituaries in The Times , 18 December 1857, and Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers , vol. xviii, 1858, p. 203; J. L. Pritchard, Sir George Cayley , 1961; C. H. Gibbs-Smith, Sir George Cayley's Aeronautics , 1962; Gerard Fairlie and Elizabeth Cayley, The Life of a Genius , 1965; P. Brett, The Rise and Fall of the York Whig Club , 1989.
2. editor of the Eatanswill Independent , a fire-eater and a Buff (Whig), whose opinions so inflame his rival Pott, editor of the Blue (Tory) Eatanswill Gazette , that they eventually come to blows.
3. In those Whig-dominated years he found that England was preponderantly not Whig but Tory; he found that a corruption-wielding establishment could win elections only in the, numerically preponderant, boroughs and even then only at the cost of an enormously expensive patronage machine.
4. Here, following the banner of reform, led by the gentlemen of that most aristocratic Whig Government, led by Lord Grey, Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, they saw for a time before them the high road to a better and fairer ordering of society.
5. The new Whig government of 1832 instituted a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws whose agents pieced together the first really comprehensive picture of the situation and a single answer to it.
6. At one period in our history the Whig party was alleged to consist of "place men", i.e. politicians willing to forsake any principle in order to secure a "place" or Government appointment.
7. GENERAL LEVY: The Whig
8. For the most part, however, it was not the democrats who carried the day, but the Whig Founding Fathers, who were as concerned as their British namesakes to establish restraints on the popular will, to protect the interests of the rich and propertied, and to restrict the franchise to property-holders.
9. This box contains the following: 1 set of Coronation coins and a 5-shilling piece; the Conference handbook for 1953; the "Irish Christian Advocate" Conference number 19 June 1953; the "Belfast Newsletter" for 15 June; the "Northern Whig" for 15 June 1953; the "Portadown News" and the "Portadown Times" for 19 June 1953; Circuit preaching plans April 1953 to March 1954; the Order of Service for the Foundation Stone Laying; a list of the Trustees with their signatures; Circuit reports for June 1951 and 1952; the Circuit Year Book for 1952 and the architect's plans for the new church and proposed possible enlargements.
10. Macaulay, the Whig historian, reviewing The Prelude in 1850, was shocked at what he found: we must remember that the book was not published until after Wordsworth's death, and had the effect of a carefully nurtured time-bomb.
11. Reacting against the enthusiasm with which so many people, including Whig friends and colleagues like Charles James Fox, greeted the outbreak of the French Revolution, Burke denounced democracy in vehement terms.
12. When the rioters took to the streets, when the fires in Bristol lit the night sky, when Attwood's meeting at Birmingham resolved to pay no taxes, when, in short, revolution threatened, it was not because the Whig Government wanted reform as proposed in their Bill.
13. The Whig reformers had their own political views in mind when they described the typical Scottish politician as a man whose position was secured by extensive bribery of a small venal electorate concerned only with individual advantage, or, alternatively, by the politician ignoring the true electorate and placing reliance upon nominal and fictitious voters who had been added to the freeholders rolls in the counties.