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Adams, John. "Novanglus No. VII, March 6, 1775." John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1755-1775, edited by Gordon S. Wood. Library of America, 2011.

Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 1, I. 390.

Helvetius, Claude Andre. A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, translated by W. Hooper. Vol. 2, University of Michigan Press, 2009, ch. 19.

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides." A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Pope, Alexander. "Pastorals." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 73.

Gay, John. "The Beggar's Opera." The Beggar's Opera and Polly, edited by Hal Gladfelder. Oxford University Press, 2013, act 2, sc. 1, air 21.

Page, John. Quoted in Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War, written by Michael Kranish. Oxford University Press, 2010.

Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

Bentham, Jeremy. The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Writings on the Poor Laws, edited by Michael Quinn. Vol. 1, Clarendon Press, 2001, app. 2.

Johnson, Samuel. "Milton." The Lives of the Poets: A Selection, edited by Roger Lonsdale. Oxford University Press, 2009.