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Extract from Volney's Ruins of Empires

1795-10-26 Subjects: Human rights, Politics and government, Religion, Revolutions Forms: Essays Printing and Publishing Status: New edition Translation Status: Partial English London

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James Marshall
translator
Thomas Williams
publisher

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The patriot's pocket companion or complete memorandum book for the year 1797, or fifth and sixth years of the French Republic

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Notes

P. 91-94 of the Patriot's Pocket Companion. This is chapter 17 of James Marshall's translation of Volney's The Ruins, entitled 'The universal basis of all rights and all laws', in which the people's delegates give a speech on equality, liberty and justice. The fragment is introduced by these lines: 'The author of this beautiful work supposes himself seated on a ruin near the remains of Palmyra, where, in a vision, he sees all the nations of the earth assembled to investigate the principles of religion and government. The people having pulled down all the usurped powers, chuse delegates for the purpose of forming a code of laws founded upon equity, and we are presented with the following striking description of their deliberation'.