“After this, who will say that an Englishman ought not to despise “all the nations of Europe?””

— William Cobbett

For my part I do, and that most “heartily.”

Porcupine's Gazette (December 1797), Porcupine's Works; containing various writings and selections, exhibiting a faithful picture of the United States of America, Volume VII (1801), p. 428
1790s

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English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist 1763–1835

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