"These false and boasting reasonings, denominating modesty to be stupidity; temperance, unmanliness; moderation, rusticity; decent expence, illiberality; thrust them all out disgracefully, and expel them their territories, and lead in in triumph insolence and anarchy, and luxury and impudence, with encomiums and applauses, shining with a great retinue, and crowned with crowns."
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;