Date: 1790
"All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of...
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Date: 1790
"This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age."
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