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summercomfort ([personal profile] summercomfort) wrote2007-11-03 11:48 am

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Put bitter politico in prison with pen and paper, and what do you get? A dictionary. Well, if it be 1795, that is.

From the A's---
Ambassador, ― a privileged spy; a genuine Representative of Royalty.
America, ― a bright and immortal example to all colonies groaning under a foreign yoke, proving the invincible energy and virtue of Freedom, and enjoying a state of prosperity, since she has thrown off her depedence on Great Britain, hitherto unknown in the nations of Europe.Apathy, ― a word characteristic of modern Britons
Aristocrate, ― a fool, or scoundrel; generally both; a monster of rapacity, and an enemy to mankind.
Attornies, ― a set of miscreants (for the most part) in rapacity and cruelty inferior to none, but those who exercise a jurisdiction over them.