Fragments of politics and history. Translated from the French

1795-01-15 Paratext Forms: Preface Paratext Functions: Hermeneutical English

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P. ix-x: 'At a crisis when all the states of Europe are threatened with political changes and convulsions, resulting from new doctrines and theories on government and legislation, the sentiments of a great and celebrated writer, who shuns each extreme, and is the blind partizan of no cause, are of extreme importance. (...) The suggestions that have given rise to many of the best regulations of civil polity embraced by the French revolutionists will be found in this work, at the same time that its author, in examining the measures of these new legislators, finds much to reprehend. Throughout the whole of the fragments a genuine philanthropy is manifested, and the cause of the oppressed boldly asserted'.

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Contains the author's preface and the translator's advertisement. The translator underlines the moderation of Mercier's opinions.