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1820 Oct 24
Spanish liberticide measures
☞ In the letter sent, not inserted this page I only indicated.
To any Spanish translated, To Mr Mora the Translators. Perhaps this followed the following paragraph might
come in more advantageously at an earlier period. If so, you can
transpose it: or if you think best, omitt it altogether.
All these criticisms (it may be said are minute and
trifling: in criticisms on logic, criticisms on grammar,
mere criticisms upon words. – Yes: considered merely in themselves, and without
regard to the object and the result indicated, they as trifling as you please.
But if the result be regarded few things can be farther
from being trifling. For the result indicated is, that the so
functionaries in question had for their object the doing what
their the direction in question of labouring to de Of
the deposing you of the substituting a despotic government to
the undespotic government, of which your Constitutional Code
affords so well grounded a promise: that they were not
themselves in an error, but that in the word occupied in the
endeavours to deceive their colleagues, and to deceive you:
and that in this design it was that they wove and employed this
wit of sophistry, with which, otherwise than by such
verbal criticisms, the nature of the case did not allow
to be unravelled.
He Gratified – most sincerely gratified – should I be
to find these remarks as groundless as the view in my
eyes present view of it the conduct, which they have for their subject, is
But this seems almost too much
for hope.
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