"Those desires which heretofore were only loose from their slavery in sleep, when he was yet under the laws and his father, when under democratic government, now when he is tyrannized over by his passions, shall be equally as loose when he is awake, and from no horrid slaughter or deed shall he abstain; but the tyrant within him, living without any restraint of law and government, shall lead him on to every mad attempt."
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
7 entries in ESTC (1787, 1788, 1794, 1797).<br>
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<u>A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, by John Adams, LL.D. and a Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Boston.</u> (London: Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1787). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T143995">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;