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Grete demanded after giving a lengthy lecture on something called a whig plant.

Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010

Grete demanded after giving a lengthy lecture on something called a whig plant.

Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010

As Herman notes, Duffy overturned the traditional 'whig' interpretation of the Reformation as a chapter in the glorious story of liberty.

Archive 2008-07-01 Burke's Corner 2008

As Herman notes, Duffy overturned the traditional 'whig' interpretation of the Reformation as a chapter in the glorious story of liberty.

Dark History and the Moral Imagination Burke's Corner 2008

Abbreviated to "whig," it speedily became, and has in England and Scotland ever since remained, a name for the opponents of royal power.

History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880

For besides petitioner and abhorrer, appellations which were soon forgotten, this year is remarkable for being the epoch of the well-known epithets of "whig" and "tory", by which, and sometimes without any material difference, this island has been so long divided.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. David Hume 1743

Anyway I recall some FOX VP big whig talking about how the disenfranchised market was huge and very profitable.

Think Progress » Beck admits he doesn’t give ‘a flying crap about the political process. … We’re an entertainment company.’ 2010

Historiann "Feminism and whig history" (via Academic Ecology)

Women of the Apollo Program Peggy 2009

“If Gen. Taylor adhere to this resolution,” declared the Richmond Times and Compiler, “we are constrained to express an opinion that the whig party cannot be expected to surrender their organization and their principles for the purpose of elevating him to the presidency.”

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

So now, said Frazer, he was going for Polk—“the bosom friend of Old Hickory … the man who stood up in defence of the old hero during the panic session … the man who fought so bravely and so undauntingly the whigs of Tennessee—the pure, whole hog, locofoco democrat, who goes against … the ring-streaked and speckled whig party, with all its odious, abominable measures.”

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009