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9218. YOUNG MEN, Reform and.—

The
[French] officers, who had been to America,
were mostly young men, less shackled by
habit and prejudice, and more ready to assent
to the suggestions of common sense and
feeling of common rights, than others. They
come back [to France] with new ideas and
impressions.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 69. Ford ed., i, 96.
(1821)