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Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
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The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought
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In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.
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The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Bernard Bailyn
Born:
September 9, 1922
Died:
August 7, 2020
(aged 97)
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