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In his comment on these laws Steele sounds all the usual notes of current Whig propaganda, ranging from a criticism of the Tory peace to an attack on the dismissal of Marlborough ; ;
He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but he showed his party loyalty by participating in almost all votes and making speeches that echoed the party line.
However there was no consistency in Whig ideology, and diverse writers including John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith and Edmund Burke were all influential among Whigs, although none of them was universally accepted.
However, in the UK, the symbolism ends there, since the real governing authority of the monarch was all but extinguished by the Whig revolution of 1688-89 ( see Glorious Revolution ).
In the Commons, he insisted on the support of all Whig members, especially those who held office.
Trinity alumni include six British prime ministers ( all Tory or Whig / Liberal ), British King George VI, several heads of other nations, physicists Isaac Newton and Niels Bohr, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell ( whom it expelled before reaccepting ), and Soviet spies Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt.
Clay and his Whig allies failed in repeated attempts to continue the Second Bank of the United States, which Jackson denounced as a monopoly and from which he abruptly removed all government deposits.
First of all, the convention came on the heels of a string of Whig electoral losses.
The Whig tendency supported the great aristocratic families, the Protestant Hanoverian succession, and toleration for nonconformist Protestants ( the " dissenters ," such as Presbyterians ), while some Tories supported the exiled Stuart royal family's claim to the throne ( Jacobitism ), and virtually all Tories supported the established Church of England and the gentry.
Whig leaders, such as Lord Grey, Lord Grenville, Lord Althorp, William Lamb ( later Lord Melbourne ) and Lord John Russell were all rich landowners.
It was around this time that the great Whig historian Thomas Babington Macaulay began to promulgate what would later be coined the Whig view of history, in which all of English history was seen as leading up to the culminating moment of the passage of Lord Grey's reform bill.
The Whig party won almost all constituencies with genuine electorates, leaving the Tories with little more than the rotten boroughs.
The Trumansburg Central School District consists of the Elementary School, Russel I. Doig Middle School, and Charles O. Dickerson High School, all of which share a campus at 100 Whig Street.
Harley, now master of the Tory party, did all he could to persuade his colleagues that the pro-war Whigs – and by their apparent concord with Whig policy, Marlborough and Godolphin – were bent on leading the country to ruin.
During the 16th century the school educated writers including Ben Jonson and Richard Hakluyt ; in the seventeenth, the poet John Dryden, philosopher John Locke, scientist Robert Hooke, composer Henry Purcell and architect Christopher Wren were pupils ; and in the 18th century, philosopher Jeremy Bentham and several Whig Prime Ministers and other statesmen ; recent Old Westminsters include prominent politicians of all parties, and many members of the arts and media.
Indeed, later in the century the Whig John Wilkes contemptuously described it as like " Peace of God, for it passeth all understanding ".
This finalized the long-developing rift between them, dated by Campbell to 1811, the year the Prince became Regent and began abandoning all his old Whig friends.
Holles was essentially an aristocrat and a Whig in feeling, making Cromwell's supposed hatred of " Lords " a special charge against him ; regarding the civil wars rather as a social than as a political revolution, and attributing all the evils of his time to the transference of political power from the governing families to the " meanest of men.
A Foxite Whig, He was a prolific writer on the law and political topics, a vigorous and contentious advocate of parliamentary and other reforms, and carried on a voluminous correspondence with all the literary men of his time.
He is not, however, to be thought of as a keen political adherent of either the Whig or the Tory party ; his caricatures satirized members of all sides of the political spectrum.
When Swift attacks the lovers of all things modern, he is thereby attacking the new world of trade, of dissenting religious believers, and, to some degree, an emergent portion of the Whig Party.
P. B. M. Blaas has argued that Whig history itself had lost all vitality by 1914.
Because the Tory opposition had been tainted, in the eyes of George I, by their support of the Jacobite pretenders, he did not trust them, and drew all his ministers and officials from the Whig faction.

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Given the rugged terrain of Ngazidja and Nzwani, and the dedication of extensive tracts to agriculture on all three islands, population pressures on Comoros are becoming increasingly critical.
Members of the Fujiwara, Taira, and Minamoto families — all of whom had descended from the imperial family — attacked one another, claimed control over vast tracts of conquered land, set up rival regimes, and generally broke the peace of Japan.
Astor withdrew from the American Fur Company, as well as all his other ventures, and used the money to buy and develop large tracts of Manhattan real estate.
In North America, for example, some nations broke apart and reformed, as was the case with the Confederation of American States and the United Canadian and American States ; others became havens for specific racial or ethnic groups, like the councils of the Native American Nations, the Native Americans having used their new found magical abilities to regain massive tracts of land ; or the Elvish principality of Tír Tairngire, that encompasess all of the state of Oregon.
Large numbers of small carburetors have also been used ( see photo ), though this configuration can limit the maximum air flow through the engine due to the lack of a common plenum ; with individual intake tracts, not all cylinders are drawing air at once as the engine's crankshaft rotates.
President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill on June 30, 1864 granting Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to the State of California " for public use, resort and recreation ," the two tracts " shall be inalienable for all time ".
Obstetrics ( from the Latin obstare, " to stand by ") is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy ( prenatal period ), childbirth and the postnatal period.
To " eat dirt " is of a family of idioms having to do with eating and being proved incorrect, such as " eating crow " and to " eat your hat " ( or shoe ), all probably originating from " to eat one's words ", which first appears in print in 1571 in one of John Calvin's tracts, on Psalm 62: “ God eateth not his words when he hath once spoken ”.
On 24 March 1359 Edward and John concluded a new treaty in London whereby John would be released back to France on payment of a huge ransom and would make over to Edward III large tracts of French territory – including all of Charles of Navarre's French lands.
She sent him a cattlechasing gadfly ; and the bull, pricked continually all over by the sharp sting, galloped away like a horse through pathless tracts then threw and gorged him to death "
It was long thought that all the writings of the heretic himself had perished, but in 1885, Georg Schepss discovered at the University of Würzburg eleven genuine tracts, published in the Vienna Corpus 1886.
Eventually, the Mennonites purchased all of Beasley's unsold land creating 160 farm tracts.
For his services he was awarded with large tracts of land in Indiana including almost all of present day Floyd County.
For the 1990 Census, all counties contained either census tracts or BNAs.
Census 2000 was the first decade in which census tracts were defined in all counties.
The San Diego Association of Governments ( SANDAG ), San Diego County's regional planning agency, has compiled census data for all census tracts in the Ramona Community Planning Area ( RCPA ).
In 1887 the San Marcos Land Company bought almost all of the San Marcos land formerly owned by the Couts family and promptly divided the land into tracts.
However, the records show that the Southern Real Estate and Guaranty Company bought all land tracts by April 1889.
Hall's writings at Leicester embraced various tracts printed for private circulation ; a number of dontributions to the Eclectic Review, among which may be mentioned his articles on Foster's Essays and on Zeal without Innovation ; several sermons, including those On the Advantages of Knowledge to the Lower Classes ( 1810 ), On the Death of the Princess Charlotte ( 1817 ), and On the Death of Dr Ryland ( 1825 ); and his pamphlet on Terms of Communion, in which he advocated intercommunion with all those who acknowledged the " essentials " of Christianity.
Members of the Fujiwara, Taira, and Minamoto families — all of whom had descended from the imperial family — attacked one another, claimed control over vast tracts of conquered land, set up rival regimes, and generally upset the peace.
It was long thought that all the writings of the " heretic " himself had perished, but in 1885, Georg Schepss discovered at the University of Würzburg eleven genuine tracts, published in the Vienna Corpus 1886.
The story begins with D-503 deciding to answer the One State's call for all with literary talent to " compose tracts, odes, manifestos, poems, or other works extolling the beauty and grandeur of the One State.
Upon traversing the Great Plains, Pike wrote, " This vast plains of the western hemisphere may become in time as celebrated as the sandy deserts of Africa ; for I saw in my route, in various places, tracts of many leagues where the wind had thrown up the sand in all the fanciful form of the ocean's rolling wave, and on which not a speck of vegetable matter existed.
The reproductive, digestive, respiratory, and urinary tracts, skin, eye, and vasculature all contain this tonic muscle type.

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