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A Commentary and review of Montesquieu's Spirit of laws / prepared for press from the original manuscript, in the hands of the publisher. ; To which are annexed, Observations on the thirty-first book by the late M. Condorcet: and two letters of Helvetius on the merits of the same work. ; [Six lines of quotations].
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 22689. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 22689.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755. De l'esprit des lois.
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 292 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia-- : Printed by William Duane. No. 98, Market Street., 1811.
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- Notes:
- The word 'thirty-first' on the title page is an error for 'twenty-ninth,' which is correctly given at the beginning of Condorcet's Observations on p. 261, and on the title page of the French edition of this work, Paris, 1819.
- Originally written in French about 1807. Later the manuscript was "committed" to Thomas Jefferson, by whom the present translation was revised and forwarded to Duane. The French edition appeared in 1819 under title: Commentaire sur l'Esprit des lois.
- Attributed in NUC pre-1956 to Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy. The author's note on p. [1] to "his fellow citizens of the United States of America" states that he is a Frenchman who "flying then from the tyrannies of the monster Robespierre, I found, and still enjoy, safety, freedom, and hospitality, among you." There is, however, no record that Destutt de Tracy ever left France.
- Copyright July 4, 1811, by William Duane.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 22689).
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