September 17, 2007
Item of the Day: Bolingbroke’s Dissertation on Parties (1754)
Full Title: The Works of the Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. Vol. II. London: Printed in the Year MDCCLIV.
A Dissertation on Parties. Letter I.
Sir, To corrupt and to divide are the trite and wicked expedients, by which some ministers in all ages have affected to govern; but especially such as have been least [...]