Antedating of "Conservatism"

[Stephen Goranson]

Quoting Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>:

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0500, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>>
>> conservatism (OED 1835)
>>
>> 1833 _The Satirist_ 17 Feb. (19th Century UK Periodicals)  SUMMARY
>> OF CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES. ... To get all we can, and keep all we
>> get, at the expense of the rest of the community. ... As a
>> principke, it may be termed the life and soul of conservatism.
>>
>
> 1832 _Manchester Times & Gaz._ 8 Sept., That leaven of
> resistance to beneficial change which at different periods has
> been denominated jacobitism, toryism, and conservatism.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
A discourse delivered in the audience of His Excellency Caleb Strong, esq.,
governor,
His Honor William Phillips, esq., lieutentant governor, the honorable Council,
and the two branches of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. On the anniversary
election, May 31, 1815.
James Flint
1815
English Book Book 31 p. 24 cm.
Boston, Printed by Russell, Cutler and Co. for Benjamin Russell,
Printer to the
State
page 16
By conservatism, I understand protection from corruption, diminution, injury,
and needless exposure to danger ; the system, whether in morals or
politics, or
any thing else, which will not hazard present certain and great good
for future
and very uncertain good, which may, by possibility, be greater; in a word...

etc.:
http://books.google.com/books?id=zH0XAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=conservatism+date:1800-1815&lr=&as_brr=1

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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