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English: Title page of Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy; Thomas Jefferson, transl. (1811) A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws. Prepared for Press from the Original Manuscript, in the Hands of the Publisher. To which are Annexed, Observations on the Thirty-first [sic: Twenty-ninth] Book, by the Late M. [Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet, marquis de] Condorcet: and Two Letters of [Claude Adrien] Helvetius, on the Merits of the Same Work, Philadelphia, Penn.: [Thomas Jefferson]; printed by William Duane. No. 98, Market Street OCLC: 166602192.

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"A / COMMENTARY AND REVIEW / OF / MONTESQUIEU'S SPIRIT OF LAWS. / PREPARED FOR PRESS / FROM / THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, / IN THE HANDS OF THE PUBLISHER.
"TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, / OBSERVATIONS ON THE THIRTY-FIRST BOOK, / BY THE LATE M. CONDORCET: / AND / TWO LETTERS OF HELVETIUS, ON THE MERITS OF THE SAME WORK.
"Ignorance of the signification of words, which is want of understanding, dis- / poseth men to take on trust, not only the truth they do not know, but also the / errors, and which is more, the nonsense of them they trust : for neither error nor / sense can, without a perfect understanding of words, be detected. HOBBES' LEVIATHAN, Chap. II.
"The most certain means of rendering a people free and happy, is to establish a perfect method of education. BECCARIA.
"PHILADELPHIA....PRINTED BY WILLIAM DUANE. / NO. 98 MARKET STREET / 1811."
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Author Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy (20 July 1754 – 9 March 1836); translated from the French by Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 – 4 July 1826).
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