1770s
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Quoted in Letter to the Earl of Harcourt. Written by Horace Walpole. 17 Sept. 1778.
Bentham, Jeremy. A Fragment on Government. London: T. Payne, P. Elmsly, and E. Brooke, 1776, preface.
Bentham, Jeremy. "A Fragment on Government." A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government, edited by J.H. Burns and H.L.A Hart. Clarendon Press, 2009, preface.
Burke, Edmund. A Letter to John Farr and John Harris, Esqs., Sheriffs of the City of Bristol, on the Affairs of America. London: J. Dodsley, 3 Apr. 1777.
Burke, Edmund. "A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs of America." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 2.
Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 2.
Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.
Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.
Cowper, William. "Light Shining out of Darkness." Twenty-six Letters on Religious Subjects; to which are added Hymns. London: J. and W. Oliver, 1774.
Cowper, William. "Light Shining out of Darkness." William Cowper's Olney Hymns. Curiosmith, 2009.
Mason, George. Virginia Bill of Rights. 12 June 1776, article 12.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Critic. 1779, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.
Burke, Edmund. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. London: J. Dodsley, 1770.
Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.
Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse VI." 10 Dec. 1774, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.
Johnson, Samuel. "Cowley." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London, c. 1779.
Johnson, Samuel. "Cowley." The Lives of the Poets: A Selection, edited by Roger Lonsdale. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Burke, Edmund. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. London: J. Dodsley, 1770.
Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.
Adams, Samuel. "American Independence." 1 Aug. 1776, State House, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Speech.
Beattie, James. The Minstrel; Or, The Progress of Genius. A Poem. London: E. & C. Dilly, 1774, bk. 2, st. 47.
Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse VII." 10 Dec. 1776, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.
William Murray, Lord Mansfield
Murray, William. King's Bench. Somerset v Stewart. 98 ER 499. 22 June 1772.
Mason, George. Virginia Bill of Rights. 12 June 1776, article 3.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village. London: W. Griffin, 1770, l. 51.
Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations. Vol. 1, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776, bk. 1, ch. 11, pt. 2.
Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, edited by Edwin Cannan. The Modern Library, bk. 1, ch. 11, pt. 2.