| Preface and Acknowledgements |
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| A Note on the Texts |
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| Introduction |
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1 A Discourse on the Love of Our Country |
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12 | (7) |
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[ What has the love of their country hitherto been among mankind?] |
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13 | (3) |
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[ A narrower interest must give way to a more extensive interest] |
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16 | (1) |
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[ Every degree of illumination ... hastens the overthrow of priestcraft and tyranny] |
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[ The principles of the Revolution] |
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17 | (1) |
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[ Be encouraged, all ye friends of freedom and writers in its defence!] |
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18 | (1) |
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2 Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to That Event |
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19 | (32) |
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[ All the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction] |
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21 | (2) |
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[ The public declaration of a man much connected with literary caballers] |
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23 | (1) |
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[ The two principles of conservation and correction] |
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24 | (1) |
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[ The very idea of the fabrication of a new government, is enough to fill us with disgust and horror] |
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25 | (1) |
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[ Our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers] |
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26 | (2) |
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[ Their blow was aimed at an hand holding out graces, favours, and immunities] |
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28 | (2) |
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[ A profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others] |
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30 | (1) |
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[ The real rights of men] |
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31 | (2) |
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[ But the age of chivalry is gone. - That of sophisters, œconomists, and calculators, has succeeded] |
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33 | (6) |
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[ The real tragedy of this triumphal day] |
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39 | (1) |
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[ We have not... lost the generosity and dignity of thinking of the fourteenth century] |
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40 | (2) |
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[ Society is indeed a contract] |
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42 | (1) |
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[ The political Men of Letters] |
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43 | (2) |
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[ We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history] |
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45 | (2) |
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[ By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little] |
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47 | (2) |
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[ Old establishments... are the results of various necessities and expediencies] |
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49 | (1) |
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[ Some popular general... shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself] |
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49 | (2) |
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3 A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke |
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51 | (19) |
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52 | (1) |
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[ I have not yet learned to twist my periods, nor ... to disguise my sentiments] |
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53 | (1) |
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[ I perceive ... that you have a mortal antipathy to reason] |
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53 | (4) |
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[ The champion of property, the adorer of the golden image which power has set up] |
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57 | (2) |
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[ Misery, to reach your heart, I perceive, must have its cap and bells] |
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59 | (1) |
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[ In reprobating Dr. Price's opinions you might have spared the man] |
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60 | (1) |
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[ The younger children have been sacrificed to the eldest son] |
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61 | (1) |
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[ The respect paid to rank and fortune damps every generous purpose of the soul] |
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62 | (1) |
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[ The spirit of romance and chivalry is in the wane; and reason will gain by its extinction] |
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63 | (2) |
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65 | (1) |
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[ This fear of God makes me reverence myself) |
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66 | (1) |
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[ The cold arguments of reason, that give no sex to virtue] |
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67 | (2) |
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[ What were the outrages of a day to these continual miseries?] |
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69 | (1) |
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4 Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution |
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70 | (19) |
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[ The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave] |
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71 | (2) |
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[ Mr. Burke has set up a sort of political Adam, in whom all posterity are bound for ever] |
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73 | (1) |
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[ Mr. Burke does not attend to the distinction between men and principles] |
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74 | (1) |
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[ The Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone] |
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74 | (2) |
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[ Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity] |
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76 | (2) |
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[ We are now got at the origin of man, and at the origin of his rights] |
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78 | (2) |
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[ The natural rights of man ... the civil rights of man] |
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80 | (1) |
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[ Governments must have arisen, either out of the people, or over the people] |
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81 | (1) |
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[ Titles are hut nick names... a sort of foppery in the human character which degrades it] |
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82 | (1) |
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[ Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it] |
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83 | (1) |
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[ The church with the state, a sort of mule animal] |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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[ In mixed Governments there is no responsibility] |
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87 | (1) |
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[ The Revolutions of America and France, are a renovation of the natural order of things] |
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87 | (1) |
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[ It is an age of Revolutions, in which every thing may be looked for] |
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88 | (1) |
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5 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects |
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To M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Late Bishop of Autun |
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[ The prevailing notion respecting a sexual character was subversive of morality] |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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Chap. I Shall disdain to cull my phrases or polish my style |
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93 | (1) |
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Chap. II The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed |
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94 | (3) |
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[ The grand end of their exertions should be to unfold their own faculties] |
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97 | (1) |
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[ To endeavour to reason love out of the world, would be to out Quixote Cervantes] |
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98 | (1) |
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[ Surely she has not an immortal soul who can loiter life away] |
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98 | (1) |
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Chap. III The Same Subject Continued |
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99 | (1) |
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[ It is time to effect a revolution in female manners] |
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100 | (1) |
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Chap. IV Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes |
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101 | (2) |
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[ Their senses are inflamed, and their understandings neglected] |
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103 | (1) |
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Chap. V Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt -- Sect. i [ Rousseau] |
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104 | (1) |
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[ Is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?] |
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105 | (1) |
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[ Let us then ... arrive at perfection of body] |
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105 | (1) |
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Sect. ii [ Dr. Fordyce's sermons] |
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106 | (1) |
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[ Why are girls to be told that they resemble angels; but to sink them below women?] |
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