Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks: Adapted to the Present State of Great BritainMontagu, Edward Wortley

Philosophy

Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks: Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain

Name: Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks: Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain
Author: Montagu, Edward Wortley

Montagu, Edward Wortley

History, Ancient -- Philosophy; Republics

Should faction again predominate and succeed in its destructive views,
and the dastardly maxims of luxury and effeminancy universally prevail
amongst us ... such too will soon be the fate of Britain.

  [365] Xenophon, de Republ. Athen.

  [366] Esprit des loix, vol. 2. p. 3.

  [367] The king of Prussia.

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Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks: Adapted to the Present State of Great BritainMontagu, Edward Wortley

Philosophy

Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks: Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain

Montagu, Edward Wortley

History, Ancient -- Philosophy; Republics

Should faction again predominate and succeed in its destructive views,
and the dastardly maxims of luxury and effeminancy universally prevail
amongst us ... such too will soon be the fate of Britain.

  [365] Xenophon, de Republ. Athen.

  [366] Esprit des loix, vol. 2. p. 3.

  [367] The king of Prussia.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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