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The Temperate Zone
By William Pitt the Younger
William Pitt complained that European politics offers only a choice of inhospitable extremes.
260
Raw Haste
By Sir Reginald Coupland
The French revolution failed because real liberty cannot be enforced overnight, or indeed enforced at all.
261
Hard Rain
By William Cobbett
Some likened tax-and-spend to a refreshing shower of rain, but for William Cobbett the rain wasn’t falling mainly on the plain man.
262
‘Never Trust Experts’
By Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Lord Salisbury seeks to calm the Viceroy of India’s nerves in the face of anti-Russian hysteria.
263
The Liberty-Lovers
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson praises the English public for still loving freedom, despite their politicians.
264
The Supreme Indignity
Lord Salisbury tells his fellow statesmen that no country should have its laws dictated from abroad.
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