A patriot for whom? the afterlives of bolingbroke’s patriot king

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• who: Bolingbroke's Patriot King from the The transformationof patriotisminto nationalismhas become one of the acceptedgrandnarrativesof eighteenth-centuryBritish history [1]Fromits firstappearancein Englishin the, s, "patriotism"as a political slogan expresseddevotion to the common good of the patria and hostility to sectionalinterestsand became a staple of oppositionalpolitics. Thoughit was attackedby ministerialistwriters, it was a liability only for those like the elder Pitt, whose attachmentto patriotismwhen in oppositionwas not matchedby his behaviorwhen in government [2]. However, the Wilkesiteagitationsandthe debateover the AmericanWar decisively taintedpatriotismwith the whiff of factious reformism, and it was in just this context, in, that Dr . . .
  

   

  

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