Some Eighteenth Century Byways and Other EssaysW. Blackwood & Sons, 1908 - 345 páginas |
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... Whiggism in Scotland came to mean factiousness , since there was no Whig oligarchy of great families to patronise it , or genuine political theory to give it The real Whigs were yet to be born ; and in the meantime Scotland was ...
... Whiggism in Scotland came to mean factiousness , since there was no Whig oligarchy of great families to patronise it , or genuine political theory to give it The real Whigs were yet to be born ; and in the meantime Scotland was ...
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... Whiggism meant the deification of such a crowd , we need not wonder that the cult did not flourish in the North . Scotland , then , was practically of one way of thinking , whether we call her politics Tory or Revolution Whig . Of ...
... Whiggism meant the deification of such a crowd , we need not wonder that the cult did not flourish in the North . Scotland , then , was practically of one way of thinking , whether we call her politics Tory or Revolution Whig . Of ...
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... a new dividing - line and a genuine opposition of theories . The history of Whiggism , in its modern sense , falls into two epochs , in the first of which it is a vague creed fostered by 180 SOME EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY BYWAYS .
... a new dividing - line and a genuine opposition of theories . The history of Whiggism , in its modern sense , falls into two epochs , in the first of which it is a vague creed fostered by 180 SOME EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY BYWAYS .
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... Whiggism from the upper classes . But Whiggism found another home , and a passion for reform began to show itself more and more among the lower ranks of society , and , to quote Sir Henry Craik , seemed to gather to itself some of the ...
... Whiggism from the upper classes . But Whiggism found another home , and a passion for reform began to show itself more and more among the lower ranks of society , and , to quote Sir Henry Craik , seemed to gather to itself some of the ...
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... Whiggism which has endured to our own day . So far we have traced the course of secular affairs , but we must return and discover the con- dition of the Kirk . Presbytery , as we have seen , had ranged itself under the Government banner ...
... Whiggism which has endured to our own day . So far we have traced the course of secular affairs , but we must return and discover the con- dition of the Kirk . Presbytery , as we have seen , had ranged itself under the Government banner ...
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