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7315. REPUBLIC (English), Prospective.—

If I could but see the French and Dutch
at peace with the rest of their continent, I
should have little doubt of dining with Piche


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gru in London, next autumn; for I believe
I should be tempted to leave my clover for
awhile, to go and hail the dawn of liberty and
republicanism in that island.—
To William B. Giles. Washington ed. iv, 118. Ford ed., vii, 11.
(M. April. 1795)