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liad been as sharply defined as at present, and men 

 were as industriously taught to belieye that what- 

 ever ranged itself under one form of faith was 

 praiseworthy, whilst everything on the other side was 

 to be condemned. Addison, in his usually happy 

 style, had already described this state of things in 

 the Spectator, where he says : — " This humour fills 

 the country with several periodical meetings of "Whig 

 jockeys and Tory fox-hunters ; not to mention the 

 innimierable curses, frowns, and whispers it pro- 

 duces at a quarter sessions In all our journey 



from London to this house we did not so much as 

 bait at a Whig inn ; or if by chance the coachman 

 stopped at a wrong place, one of Sir Eoger's ser- 

 vants would ride up to his master full speed, and 

 whisper to him that the master of the house was 

 against such an one in the last election. This often 

 betrayed us into hard beds and bad cheer, for we 

 were not so inquisitive about the inn as the inn- 

 keeper ; and, provided our landlord's principles were 

 sound, did not take any notice of the staleness of the 

 provisions." 



So that Whig and Tory had even then long been 

 names representing those principles by which the 

 Constitution was balanced, names representing those 



