 | John Stephen Farmer - Slang - 1904 - 396 pages
...ashamed of this great scandal (provided WHIGGS can be ashamed) that . . . d. 1715. BURNET, Own Timtst i. The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them all the year round, and the northern parts producing more than they used, those in the west went in... | |
 | John Dryden - Poetry - 1905 - 194 pages
...corrupt and sour whey. ' But Burnet's explanation, now generally received as the correct one, is this : " The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn...stores that come from the north : and from a word whiyijam used in driving their horses all that drove were called the Whiggamors, and shorter the Whifls."... | |
 | John Dryden - Poetry - 1905 - 196 pages
...corrupt and sour whey. ' But Burnet's explanation, now generally received as the correct one, is this: "The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn...round the year, and the northern parts producing more thiui they need those in the west come in the summer to buy at Leith the stores that come from the... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Stackhouse - Great Britain - 1906 - 440 pages
...they could, by solemn denunciations of the wrath and curse of God on all that were concerned in it. The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them the year round, and therefore they come to Leith in summer to buy ; and from the word w/uggam, used... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Stackhouse - Great Britain - 1906 - 436 pages
...they could, by solemn denunciations of the wrath and curse of God on all that were concerned in it. The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough, to serve them the year round, and therefore they come to Leith in summer to buy ; and from the word whiggam, used... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 822 pages
...enthusiasts "whigamores,* and Burnet, who was then five years old, offers the following explanation : "The southwest counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them throughout the year, and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1920 - 886 pages
...enthusiasts "whigamores," and Burnet, who was then five years old, offers the following explanation: "The southwest counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them throughout the year, and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in... | |
 | 1920 - 892 pages
...southwest counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them throughout the year, and the northem parts producing more than they need, those in the...driving their horses, all that drove were called the whigainores, and shorter, the whiggs. After the news came of Duke Hamilton's defeat (in 1648), the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 pages
...corrupt and sour whey.'1 But Burnet's explanation, now generally received as the correct one, is this : " The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn...stores that come from the north : and from a word u-higijam used in driving their horses all that drove we.'e called the \Vhiggamors, and shorter the... | |
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The southwest counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them round the year : and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in the summer to buy at Leith the stores that come from the north ; and, from a word,... 
