Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographical note
- Biographical notes
- A note on the texts
- Britain's Happiness, and the Proper Improvement of it
- Two Tracts on Civil Liberty, the War with America, and the Debts and Finances of the Kingdom
- A Fast Sermon (1781)
- Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution and the Means of making it a Benefit to the World
- The Evidence for a Future Period of Improvement in the State of Mankind
- A Discourse on the Love of our Country
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution and the Means of making it a Benefit to the World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographical note
- Biographical notes
- A note on the texts
- Britain's Happiness, and the Proper Improvement of it
- Two Tracts on Civil Liberty, the War with America, and the Debts and Finances of the Kingdom
- A Fast Sermon (1781)
- Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution and the Means of making it a Benefit to the World
- The Evidence for a Future Period of Improvement in the State of Mankind
- A Discourse on the Love of our Country
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Summary
Advertisement
Having reason to hope I should be attended to in the American States and thinking I saw an opening there favourable to the improvement and best interests of mankind, I have been induced to convey thither the sentiments and advice contained in the following Observations. They were, therefore, originally intended only for America. The danger of a spurious edition has now obliged me to publish them in my own country.
I should be inexcusable did I not take this opportunity to express my gratitude to a distinguished writer (the Count de Mirabeau) for his translation of these Observations into French, and for the support and kind civility with which it has been accompanied …
I think it necessary to add that I have expressed myself in some respects too strongly in the conclusion of the following Observations. By accounts from persons the best informed, I have lately been assured that no such dissentions exist among the American States as have been given out in this country, that the new governments are in general well settled, and the people happy under them, and that, in particular, a conviction is becoming universal of the necessity of giving more strength to that power which forms and which is to conduct and maintain their union.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Price: Political Writings , pp. 116 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992