But their union lasted till it was dissolved by death.

Little as some of them may have deserved esteem, none of them can be accused of having been false to his brethren of the Junto.
While the great body of the Whigs was, under these able chiefs, arraying itself in order resembling that of a regular army, the Tories were in a state of an ill drilled and ill officered militia.

They were numerous; and they were zealous; but they can hardly be said to have had, at this time, any chief in the House of Commons.

The name of Seymour had once been great among them, and had not quite lost its influence.

But, since he had been at the Board of Treasury, he had disgusted them by vehemently defending all that he had himself, when out of place, vehemently attacked.