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John Stanley (1713–1786)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020
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Most of us have experienced, in one form or another, the feelings of that Frenchman who read the writings of Seneca a few years before the French revolution and found them to be fantastic and absurd. But reading them again when France was under the terror, and his own head was no more safe than it would have been in the days of Nero, he found them to be reasonable and true.
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