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  • The movement we need is a sort of neo-Whiggism, that is keen on religion as long as it is subordianted to the liberal state.

    The state of religion 2009

  • The movement we need is a sort of neo-Whiggism, that is keen on religion as long as it is subordianted to the liberal state.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • “Conventional Lockean Whiggism was revolutionary.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both? 2009

  • To the end she remained a vital figure, fond of irritating her critics with her bombastic Whiggism and excessive showmanship, but genuinely earnest about the position of Ireland, social reform, and the future of women in literary and political life.

    Women writers - Sydney Owenson 2008

  • Robinson's Whig leanings were insubstantial compared to Fox's influence, but Caroline's strong Whiggism as determined counter to

    Notes on 'Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text' 2006

  • I was very anxious that all should be well; and begged of my friend to avoid three topicks, as to which they differed very widely; Whiggism, Presbyterianism, and — Sir John Pringle.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • I am not a reactionary and I admire Burke a good deal; but from 1790 onward, Burke strikes me as a man possessed — and not by the sociology of skeptical Whiggism.

    'Economic Sentiments' McElroy, George C. 2002

  • Liberals may not return _in toto_ to the advocacy of sound principles in regard to Ireland, the abandonment of which is to be traced to the recrudescence of Whiggism after Mr. Gladstone's death and the desire to find some line of policy which might be pilloried as a scapegoat to account for the disgust of the country with a divided party in the years following 1895.

    Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell

  • The pronounced Whiggism of that critique led to an open rupture with the Tory contributors.

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • He really did as little to earn respect as he did to forfeit it; in fact he was a pre-eminently respectable mediocrity of the kind that, towards the close of the mid-Victorian period, clung like barnacles to office, and he was a Whig during the period that Whiggism was growing obsolete.

    The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

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