Quote#Books & Reading
Mr. Hollis is always publishing republican books, and yet professes…
Quote byHorace Walpole · 1717–1797
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Walpoliana, 'Mr. Hollis', p. 68.
English (original)
Mr. Hollis is always publishing republican books, and yet professes great veneration for our constitution. I cannot reconcile this; our constitution being, in its leading part, an oligarchy, the form, perhaps, of all others, the most opposite to a republic.
— Horace Walpole
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