Title page of <cite class="book" style="font-style:normal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Destutt_de_Tracy" class="extiw" title="w:Antoine Destutt de Tracy"> Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, transl. (1811)      <i> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antoine_Louis_Claude_Destutt_de_Tracy_(Thomas_Jefferson,_transl),_A_Commentary_and_Review_of_Montesquieu%27s_Spirit_of_Laws_(1811).pdf" title="File:Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (Thomas Jefferson, transl), A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws (1811).pdf">A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws. Prepared for Press from the Original Manuscript, in the Hands of the Publisher. To which are Annexed, Observations on the Thirty-first [<i>sic</i>: Twenty-ninth] Book, by the Late M. [Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet, marquis de] Condorcet: and Two Letters of [Claude Adrien] Helvetius, on the Merits of the Same Work</a></i>, Philadelphia, Penn.:  [Thomas Jefferson]; printed by William Duane. No. 98, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Street_(Philadelphia)" class="extiw" title="w:Market Street (Philadelphia)">Market Street</a>  <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Computer_Library_Center" class="extiw" title="en:Online Computer Library Center">OCLC</a>:   <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166602192">166602192</a>. </small></cite>
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</p><dl><dd>"A / COMMENTARY AND REVIEW / OF / MONTESQUIEU'S SPIRIT OF LAWS. / PREPARED FOR PRESS / FROM / THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, / IN THE HANDS OF THE PUBLISHER.</dd>
<dd>"TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, / OBSERVATIONS ON THE THIRTY-FIRST BOOK, / BY THE LATE M. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Condorcet" class="extiw" title="w:Marquis de Condorcet">CONDORCET</a>: / AND / TWO LETTERS OF <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Adrien_Helv%C3%A9tius" class="extiw" title="w:Claude Adrien Helvétius">HELVETIUS</a>, ON THE MERITS OF THE SAME WORK.</dd>
<dd>"Ignorance of the signification of words, which is want of understanding, dis- / poseth men to take on trust, not only the truth they do not know, but also the / errors, and which is more, the nonsense of them they trust : for neither error nor / sense can, without a perfect understanding of words, be detected. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Hobbes">HOBBES</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:Leviathan (book)">LEVIATHAN</a>, Chap. II.</dd>
<dd>"The most certain means of rendering a people free and happy, is to establish a perfect method of education. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Beccaria" class="extiw" title="w:Cesare Beccaria">BECCARIA</a>.</dd>
<dd>"PHILADELPHIA....PRINTED BY WILLIAM DUANE. / NO. 98 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Street_(Philadelphia)" class="extiw" title="w:Market Street (Philadelphia)">MARKET STREET</a> / 1811."<p class="mw-empty-elt"></p></dd></dl>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Destutt_de_Tracy" class="extiw" title="w:Antoine Destutt de Tracy">Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy</a> (20 July 1754 – 9 March 1836); translated from the French by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> (13 April 1743 – 4 July 1826).
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