"With us there is an uniformity of character, as it is all forced: we do not see people as they are, but as they are obliged to appear: in this state of slavery, both of body and mind, it is their fears only that speak, which have but one language, and that not of nature, which expresses herself so differently, and which appears under so many forms."
Persian Letters [Lettres persane]
12 entries in the ESTC for this title (1722, 1730, 1731, 1736, 1751, 1759, 1760, 1762, 1767, 1773, 1775).<br>
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The earliest English-language issue is <u>Persian Letters</u>, trans. John Ozell, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1722). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3305275439&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Searching <u>The Complete Works of M. de Montesquieu</u>, 4 vols. (London: T. Evans, 1777) at Online Library of Liberty &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1338/74623">Link to OLL</a>&gt;. French text from <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30268/30268-h/30268-h.htm">Project Gutenberg</a>.