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fons, appears to be an object not lefs interesting for its fingularity, than for its magnitude. To contemplate twenty-five millions of people, starting fuddenly from their chains, animated as it were by one foul, may indeed excite admiration; but with clofer refearch, and more extenfive fpeculation on the affairs of France, it will be found, that the prefent revolution, is not, as is generally imagined, fo unexpected or fudden. This LIBERTY, on the contrary, is the accumulation of much il and much time. It has not burft into pftantaneous exiftence, but has formed the

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