[318] “Which everywhere they call _America_; truly and deservedly they should say rather _Columbina_, from the magnanimous hero Christopher Columbus, the Genoese, first explorer, and plainly divinely appointed discoverer of those lands.”--_Miscellanea Sacra_, Lib. II. cap. 4, _in fine_. Sewall, p. 49. [319] Fuller, _in loc. cit._ Sewall, pp. 49, 50. [320] Pages 50, 51. [321] Page 52. [322] Voltaire à d’Argenson, 21 Juin, 1739, 13 Mars, 1750; à Richelieu, 4 Février, 1757: Œuvres de Voltaire, (1784-89,) Tom. LIII. p. 246; LIV. p. 225; LV. p. 406. [323] Journal et Mémoires, Introduction, Tom. I. p. xlvii. [324] Journal et Mémoires, Février, 1734, Tom. I. p. 185. [325] Journal et Mémoires, Introduction, Tom. I. p. xxvii. [326] Ibid., p. liv, note. [327] Journal et Mémoires, Introduction, Tom. I. p. xxxiii. [328] Ibid., p. xxxiv. [329] Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du Lundi, Tom. XII. p. 105: _Le Marquis d’Argenson_. Journal et Mémoires, Introduction, Tom. I. p. xxxvii. [330] Journal et Mémoires, Tom. I., Introduction, p. xliii; Appendice, p. 363. [331] Pensées sur la Réformation de l’État: Journal et Mémoires, Introduction, Tom. I. pp. lv, lvi. [332] Ibid. Compare p. lvi, notes 1 and 2; p. iv, note 2; and p. xvii, note. [333] Letter to Dr. Price, March 22, 1778: Price’s Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, (London, 1785,) App., p. 98. [334] Ibid., p. 93. [335] Condorcet, Vie de Turgot: Œuvres, éd. O’Connor et Arago, (Paris, 1847-49,) Tom. V. p. 209. [336] Ibid., p. 213. [337] Œuvres, éd. Dupont de Nemours, (Paris, 1808-11,) Tom. II. p. 66. Ibid., éd. Daire, (Paris, 1844,) Tom. II. p. 602. [338] De l’Esprit des Lois, Liv. XIX. ch. 27. [339] Œuvres, éd. Daire, Tom. II. p. 802. [340] Ibid., pp. 557, 581, 564. Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol. VIII. pp. 337, 338. [341] Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, Appendix. [342] Works, Vols. IV.-VI., where (IV. 278-281) is found the larger part of the letter of Turgot. [343] Price, Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, App., pp. 96, 97. Turgot, Œuvres, éd. Daire, Tom. II. p. 808. [344] Price, Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, App., p. 100. Turgot, Œuvres, éd. Daire, Tom. II. p. 809. [345] Price, Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, App., pp. 102, 103. Turgot, Œuvres, éd. Daire, Tom. II. pp. 809, 810. [346] “Should the morals of the English be perverted by luxury, should they lose their colonies by restraining them, &c., they will be enslaved, they will become insignificant and contemptible; and Europe will not be able to show the world one nation in which she can pride herself.”--Motto on title-page of Price’s second tract on Civil Liberty, from Raynal, _Histoire Philosophique et Politique_, Liv. XIX. [347] Price, Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, App., pp. 103-105. Turgot, Œuvres, éd. Daire, Tom. II. p. 810.