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The year 1688 was his sacred date, and he had a habit of applying the principles of our English Revolution to the issues of modern politics. Actuated, probably, by some playful desire to probe the heart of Whiggery by putting an extreme case, Queen Victoria once said: "Is it true, Lord John, that you hold that a subject is justified, under certain circumstances, in disobeying his Sovereign?"
Whiggery, therefore, in its various forms, is the representative of Constitutionalism is the outward expression of monopoly and consequent artificial restraints on labour and life; and there is only one expression of the force which will destroy Whiggery, and that is Socialism; and on the right hand and on the left Toryism and Radicalism will melt into Whiggery are doing so now and Socialism has got to absorb all that is not Whig in Radicalism.
But as soon as he thought her ladyship fairly out of hearing, he bounced up in his nest. "The foul fa' ye, that I suld say sae," he cried out to his mother, "for a lang-tongued clavering wife, as my father, honest man, aye ca'd ye! Couldna ye let the leddy alane wi' your whiggery?
If we had only a Charles Stuart on the throne there would be nane o' this Whiggery." "There would be in its place masses, and popish priests, and a few private torture-chambers, and whiles a Presbyterian heretic or twa burned at the Grass-market. Whiggery is a grand thing when it keeps the Scarlet Woman on her ain seven hills. Scotland's hills and braes can do weel, weel without her."
Every successive measure of small triumphant Whiggery, every piece of what my view of the case would designate non-government or mis-government, has pinched, vexed, bruised, and stung my fervent country's love day by day, session after session.
The tane was aye graning about giving tribute to Caesar, and the tither is as daft wi' her whiggery.
"Ay, there it goes," said the Antiquary; "you, to be a staunch Tory, Sir Arthur, have nourished a fine sprig of Whiggery in your bosom Why, Miss Wardour is alone sufficient to control a whole quarter-session a quarter-session? ay, a general assembly or convocation to boot a Boadicea she an Amazon, a Zenobia." "And yet, with all my courage, Mr.
It furnished the neighboring squires with matter for talk over their October, and the neighboring rectors with topics for sharp sermons against Whiggery or Popery. Many of these curious journals might doubtless still be detected by a diligent search in the archives of old families.
But then the Church, justly alarmed for their property, which is plainly struck at, and the bulk of the landed interest, will scarce brook a mild infusion of Whiggery into the Administration. Well, time will show. We visited our friends Peel, Lord Gwydyr, Arbuthnot, etc., and left our tickets of adieu.
Leslie Stephen's work on the philosophers of the eighteenth century is enough to banish this pleasing delusion. The Deists and Freethinkers had their followers in Johnson's day among the undergraduates, though scepticism, like Whiggery, was unpopular, and might be punished.
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