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  • They found what was called toryism and high churchism in the ascendant, and self-interest or prejudice induced most of the more early settlers of this description to fall in with the more powerful and favoured party; while influenced by the representations of the old loyalist party they shunned the other American settlers as republicans.

    Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

  • Many of the founders welcomed the economic crisis because it would force Americans to abandon the luxuries that Thomas Jefferson called a “more baneful evil than toryism was during the war.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • “The residence of Congress in the bosom of toryism & the encouragement given to them is as impolitic as it is unjust.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • “The residence of Congress in the bosom of toryism & the encouragement given to them is as impolitic as it is unjust.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • But they were a handy way of repackaging one nation toryism for a new generation with a bit of moral philosophy smeared on top, and they might have grabbed the ‘hope’ lot and taken some votes off the LDs on an anyone-but-Gordon platform.

    Goodbye, big society Alix Mortimer 2010

  • Philip Blond's 'red toryism' project continues to attract attention, not least from the Left.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Burke's Corner 2009

  • That is the judgement of Prospect editor David Goodhart on 'red toryism' - the phrase used by Philip Blond to describe the communitarian agenda he has begun to outline for the centre-right.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Burke's Corner 2009

  • Derbyshire ends his article by referring to what is perhaps the most surprising aspect of Blond's red toryism – the fact that it is being noticed.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Burke's Corner 2009

  • Fairlie's views of toryism, like his views of most things (America, women, Parliament, Scotch), were deeply romantic.

    Reagan Was Wrong 2009

  • John Derbyshire's NS article places Blond's red toryism in the context of both historic conservative thought and contemporary conservative intellectual lineage.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Burke's Corner 2009

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