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  • I presume Clarence Hervey stands at this instant, in your imagination, as the representative of all the gentlemen in England; and he, instead of Anacharsis Cloots, is now, to be sure, l'orateur du genre humain.

    Belinda 1801

  • Most other political cosmopolitans did not go as far as Cloots.

    Cosmopolitanism Kleingeld, Pauline 2006

  • Cloots advocated the abolition of all existing states and the establishment of a single world state under which all human individuals would be directly subsumed.

    Cosmopolitanism Kleingeld, Pauline 2006

  • The very name of Cloots suggested humor, and nothing could have been more delightful and graphic than the whole episode as he related it.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Commune leaders (Hébert, Chaumette, Cloots) were executed on March 24.

    1794 2001

  • Cloots, baron de, Jean Baptiste du Valde-Grâce, French leader

    Subject Index Page 18 2001

  • An 'now, auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkin', [Hoofs]

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • The very name of Cloots suggested humor, and nothing could have been more delightful and graphic than the whole episode as he related it.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • The very name of Cloots suggested humor, and nothing could have been more delightful and graphic than the whole episode as he related it.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Anacharsis Cloots, 'orator of the human race,' condemned to die by all the Monarchies of the world; but everything was to be feared of him, -- he was a Prussian.

    Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

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