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Johnson's Definitions of Whig and Tory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

James Sledd
Affiliation:
University of Chicago, Chicago 37
Gwin Kolb
Affiliation:
University of Chicago, Chicago 37

Abstract

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Type
Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment
Information
PMLA , Volume 67 , Issue 5 , September 1952 , pp. 882 - 885
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1952

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References

1 “Dr. Johnson on Oats and Other Grains,” PMLA, lii (1937), 785-802.

2 “A Dissertation on the Whigs and Torys,” The History of England, by Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, 3rd ed. (London, 1743-47), ii, 798.

3 Cyclopedia, 5th ed. (London, 1741-43); Tindal-Rapin, ii, 798-805.

4 Cf. also the entries under whig and tory in the 4th ed. (1703) of Dr. Adam Littleton's Lingua Latina Liber Dictionarius: “A Whig is translated Homo fanaticus, factiosus; Whiggism, Enthusiasmus, perduellio; A Tory, bogtrotter or Irish robber, Praedo Hibernions; A Tory opposed to whig, Regiarum partium ossertor.” Our reference is to the Hill-Powell ed. of Boswell's Life of Johnson, i, 294, n. 6.