It expresses an opinion formed by me upon
an examination of the original documents, and with some attention to the
history, which I have always considered, and have often recommended to
others, as one of the most fruitful studies of modern politics. This is
not the proper occasion to develop its grounds: but I may say that I am
not at all disposed to surrender it in deference to one or two rather
contemptuous critics.--W. E. G., December, 1878.
[12] Gray's "Bard."
[13] _Quarterly Review_, April, 1878, Art. I.
[14] Hor. Od., I, xii, 18.
[15] Henriade, I.
[16] Vol. v, pp. 94, 95. Ed. London, 1877.
[17] Heber's "Palestine." The word "stately" was in later editions
altered by the author to "noiseless."
[18] [In reply to the intended work of Mr. Adams on the Constitution of
the United States, Mr. Livingstone, under the title of a Colonist of New
Jersey, published an Examination of the British Constitution, and
compared it unfavorably as it had been exhibited by Adams, and by
Delolme, with the institutions of his own country. In this work, of
which I have a French translation (London and Paris, 1789), there is not
the smallest inkling of the action of our political mechanism, such as I
have endeavored to describe it.
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