Les Moers Angloises, ou, Appreciation des Moeurs et des Principes qui Caracterisent Actuellement la Nation Britannique

by John Brown

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First edition

La Haye: Pierre Gosse, 1758. First edition in French published in London the previous year as An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the times . 8vo. xii, 242 pp. A treatise on the social conditions and ethics of mid-18th century Great Britain; the title went through a number of editions in 1757 and 1758 and was printed in Boston in the latter year. Lowndes This work on its first publication excited uncommon attention, and ran through seven editions

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