"The very name of France used to be an abomination to the Whigs: They hated the country for the sake of its government; and were eternally upbraiding the Tories with a fondness for that government. Who would have expected, after all this, that ever the Whigs, or any of them, could have spoken with patience, much less with approbation, of the French government? Any the least hint of this kind was shameful and unpardonable in a Whig."
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John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, 'Of Parties in England; how they vary, and interchange Characters, just as they are in Power, or out of it, yet still keep their formers Names', No. 96 (29 September 1722), Cato's Letters: Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Subjects, Volume Two, ed. Ronald Hamowy (1995), p. 692
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