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Cowper, William. "The Progress of Error." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782.

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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

'Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes.

Christopher Bullock

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Bullock, Christopher. The Cobler of Preston. 24 Jan. 1716, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London, England, UK.

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Pope, Alexander. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Swifts's Miscellanies. London, 1727, no. 31.

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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Burke, Edmund. Letter to a Member of the National Assembly. London: J. Dodsley, 1791.

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Burke, Edmund. Letter to a Member of the National Assembly." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad.

James Thomson

The Seasons: Winter

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Thomson, James. Winter. London: John Millan, 1726.

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Madison, James. "General Defense of the Constitution." Virginia Ratifying Convention. 5 June 1788, Richmond, VA, USA.

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Madison, James. "Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention in Defense of the Constitution, June 6, 1788." James Madison: Writings. Library of America, 1999.

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Tecumseh. 1799. Tribal councils with White Men. Urbana, Ohio, USA.

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Tecumseh. Quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, written by Dee Brown. Picador, 2007, ch. 1.

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Pope, Alexander. "The Universal Prayer." London: R. Dodsley, 1738, I. 37-40.

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Hamilton, Alexander. Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank. 23 Feb. 1791.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National, February 23, 1791." Alexander Hamilton: Writings, edited by Joanne B. Freeman. Library of America, 2001.

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Critic. 1779, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1.

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Burke, Edmund. A Tract on the Popery Laws. c. 1760, ch. 3, pt. 1.

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Burke, Edmund. "Tract on the Popery Laws." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, ch. 3, pt. 1.

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Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, pt. 2, l. 297-298.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, I. 297-298.

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Johnson, Samuel. Letter to James Boswell. 1 Sept. 1777.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, by Hester Lynch Piozzi. London: Thomas Cadell, 1786.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, written by James Boswell. Vol. 1, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, "1755," aetat. 46.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Adams, John. "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law." Boston Gazette, 30 Sept. 1765.

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Adams, John. "A Disseratation on the Canon and Feudal Law." The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, edited by Charles Francis Adams. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

The noblest conquest man has ever made.

Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

On horses.

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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc. "Le Cheval [The Horse]." Histoire Naturelle generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi [Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet]. Vol. 4, c. 1753.

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

John Pomfret

Reason

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Pomfret, John. Reason. London: J. Nutt, c. 1700.