Key
Date
False: false attribution such as false place of imprint
or false date
Fictional place: false imprint contains a fictional,
invented place of imprint or date
Form: type or genre of writing.
Female
Male
Language
Noble: person was born noble.
Place
Role: the main role of a person or organization in
relation to a resource.
Subject: content, theme, or topic of a work.
Uncertainty: information could not be verified.
Political Maxims etc.
Subjects:
Anti-clericalism ,
Law ,
Politics and government
Forms: Article in periodical
Issues 4 & 5
Printing and Publishing Status:
New edition
Translation Status:
Partial
English
London
URL
Authors of source text
Louis-Sébastien Mercier
Contributions
Anonymous (25)
translator
John Thelwall
publisher
Related resources
is other edition
Fragments of politics and history. Translated from the French
translation
has paratext
has other edition
is part of
The Tribune. A periodical publication, consisting chiefly of the political lectures of J. Thelwall
Notes
These extracts from Mercier's Fragments appeared in Thelwall's The Tribune (1795), no.4 (4 April) & no.5 (11 April). Entries included: 'Destructive vices', 'Reform', 'Stretches of Authority', 'Patriotism', 'Despotism' and 'Knowledge'.