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  • Biscay, which they presumed to call a Republick, to have dissipated some of this tyrannical

    John Adams autobiography, part 3, "Peace," 1779-1780 1961

  • Warburton, whatever was his motive, undertook, without solicitation, to rescue Pope from the talons of Crousaz, by freeing him from the imputation of favouring fatality, or rejecting revelation; and from month to month continued a vindication of the Essay on Man, in the literary journal of that time, called the Republick of Letters.

    The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

  • 'Tis a very dangerous Thing, Madam, with such nightmarish military & civil Power gather'd into the Hands of your Republick as we could only dream of in my Age, to allow distract'd, nay mad Politicks to burrow, like so many Worms, into the Timbers of your Ship of State.

    Noooooooooo! Ann Althouse 2008

  • The present Sommelsdyck has an important charge in the Republick, and is as worthy a man as lives.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • Will a Foreigner whose Interest cannot is not naturally connected with ours, (any otherways than as the cause of Liberty is the cause of all mankind), will he act with the same Zeal or expose himself to eaquel dangers with the same resolution for a Republick of which he is not a member as He would have done for his own Native Country?

    Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 30 - 31 July 1777 1963

  • He says the Prince has lately said that some Foreigner would soon interest himself in the Affairs of the Republick.

    John Adams diary 34, 5 -- 26 October 1782 1961

  • The Information obtained from these Books and the Observations I there madeon the Manners and Character of the French People, together with my general Reading on the Nature and forms of Government, enabled me Eight or ten Years afterwards to form a pretty correct judgment of the wild Project of demolishing the Monarchy and instituting a Republick, especially a Republic in one Representative

    John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

  • To be sure it had never yet entered my thoughts, that any rational Being would ever think of demolishing the Monarchy and creating a Republick in

    John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

  • Court of Versailles, or his Minister here, should intermeddle with the Interiour Parties and Disputes in the Republick.

    John Adams diary 34, 5 -- 26 October 1782 1961

  • I once heard the Baron Van der Capellen de Poll say that the Daemon of Aristocracy appeared every where in that Republick.

    John Adams diary 39, 1 January - 2 May 1783 1961

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