"Whiggish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Battle of the Boyne. It was one of the great indecisive battles of the world, it being necessary to fight it over again every year. The Boyne had overflowed its banks, and in the fields forlorn hay-cocks stood like so many little islands. We stopped at the battle monument and read its Whiggish inscription, which was scorned by our honest driver. We could form some idea of how the field appeared on the eventful day when King William and King James confronted each other across the narrow stream. Then the scene changed and we found ourselves in Mellefont ...
— Humanly Speaking • Samuel McChord Crothers
... gave my word to his Excellency that from henceforth I'd be Whiggish, so you've no right to treat me ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... policy they put in for a union of nations, that England might unite their Church with the Kirk of Scotland, and their Presbyterian members sit in our House of Commons, and their Assembly of Scotch canting long-cloaks in our Convocation. What might have been if our fanatic Whiggish statesmen continued, God only knows; but we hope we are out of fear ...
— Political Pamphlets • George Saintsbury |
