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the invincible ardour, the independent spirit of a FRENCH REPUBLICAN; the same servility, the fawning sycophancy of a British courtier; the Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine; the libel on the human race, by the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; the manifestos of tyrants, the answers of freemen, the impudent assertions of Grenville or Mansfield; the irresistible truths of Stanhope; a convention of the people, a parliament of aristocracy.