Cato's Letters, Volumes 1 & 2: Essays on Liberty, Civil & Religious & Other Important Subjects - Softcover

Trenchard, J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865971293 ISBN 13: 9780865971295

Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc, 1995

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Book by Trenchard John Gordon Thomas

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Almost a generation before Washington, Henry, and Jefferson were even born, two Englishmen, concealing their identities with the honored ancient name of Cato, wrote newspaper articles condemning tyranny and advancing principles of liberty that immensely influenced American colonists. The Englishmen were John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. Their prototype was Cato the Younger (95–46 B.C.), the implacable foe of Julius Caesar and a champion of liberty and republican principles. Their 144 essays were published from 1720 to 1723, originally in the London Journal, later in the British Journal. Subsequently collected as Cato's Letters, these "Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious" became, as Clinton Rossiter has remarked, "the most popular, quotable, esteemed source of political ideas in the colonial period."

This new two-volume edition offers minimally modernized versions of the letters from the four-volume sixth edition printed in London in 1755.

Ronald Hamowy is Professor of History at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.

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• Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0865971293
• ISBN 13: 9780865971295
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1064