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A melancholy lesson for Englishmen. A letter from the author of L'Esprit des Loix to M. le Chevalier de Bruant (from Voltaire's Letters)

1794 Subjects: Politics and government Forms: Article in periodical, Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. Printing and Publishing Status: New edition Translation Status: Partial English URL

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Thomas Francklin
translator
Thomas Spence
publisher

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One pennyworth of pig's meat or, Lessons for the swinish multitude. Collected by the poor man's advocate, in the course of his reading for more than twenty years. Intended to promote among the labouring part of mankind proper ideas of their situation, of their importance, and of their rights And to convince them that their forlorn condition has not been entirely overlooked and forgotten, nor their just cause unpleaded, neither by their maker not by the best and most enlightened of men in all ages

Notes

Pig's meat, vol. 2 (1794), p. 157-159. Translation of the first of three letters to the Chevalier de Bruant, taken from a volume of correspondence by Voltaire and attributed to Montesquieu.The attribution is contested. See Cathérine Volpilhac-Auger, 'Works and writings attributed to Montesquieu', in: A Montesquieu Dictionary http://dictionnaire-montesquieu.ens-lyon.fr/en/article/1378157061/en/. The letter is about the despotism of princes.