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7188. REFORM, In France.—

Surely under such a mass of misrule and oppression
[as existed in France in 1788] a people might
justly press for a thorough reformation, and
might even dismount their rough-shod riders
and leave them to walk on their own legs.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 86. Ford ed., i, 119.
(1821)