A POLITICAL DICTIONARY: explaining the true meaning of words. Illustrated and exemplified in the lives, morals, character and conduct of the following most illustrious personages, among many others. The King, Queen, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Pope Pius VI, Emperor, King of Prussia, the Tigress of Russia [etc].

PIGOTT, Charles.

Published by London: printed for D.I. Eaton no. 74 Newgate-street, 1795

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8vo, pp. [ii], iv, 175; dampstaining at foot at beginning and end, uncut, in contemporary boards, paper spine, upper cover detached. First edition, published the year after Charles Pigott's death by the radical publisher Daniel Isaac Eaton, who was, later the same year, to become Thomas Paine's London publisher, with his issue of the second part of The Age of Reason. A flavour of Charles Pigott's cynical attitude to the London politicians can be gained from a few sequential definitions: 'To jabber, to talk idly, to prate without thinking, to chatter; like young Jenkinson, Mr. Canning, Tom Steel and others. Jacobin, every man who dares to object to any part of the conduct of administration; every man who disapproves of the present war with France; and every man who wishes for a parliamentary reform and an equal representation of the people. Ice, a cold substance of which the hearts of most great men are composed' (p. 61).

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• Title: A POLITICAL DICTIONARY: explaining the true meaning of words. Illustrated and exemplified in the lives, morals, character and conduct of the following most illustrious personages, among many others. The King, Queen, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Pope Pius VI, Emperor, King of Prussia, the Tigress of Russia [etc].
• Publisher: London: printed for D.I. Eaton no. 74 Newgate-street
• Publication Date: 1795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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  • Politics