[PDF] A Political Dictionary Explaining The True Meaning Of Words By Charles Pigott eBook

Author : Charles Pigott
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 1796
Category : Great Britain
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A satire directed principally against the English government.

Author : Robert Rix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1351962051

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Considering the fact that Charles Pigott's satirical A Political Dictionary (1795) is regularly quoted and referred to in analyses of late eighteenth-century radical culture, it is surprising that until now it has remained unavailable to readers outside of a few specialised research libraries. Until his death on the 24th of June 1794, Pigott was one of England's most prolific satirists in the decade of revolutionary unrest following the French Revolution, writing a number of pamphlets and plays of which only a small proportion have survived. Pigott finished A Political Dictionary in prison, where he served a sentence for sedition. He died before his release and the book was published posthumously. The Dictionary was a brilliant satire on the "language of Aristocracy" and combined radical politics with a high entertainment value. Indeed, part of what he wrote was considered so scurrilous that the printer left out certain lines in the printed version. Modern scholars will find Pigott's work an unrivalled resource for mapping the rhetorical landscape of political debate in the 1790s, and one that yields a unique insight into the sentiments and rhetoric of radical discourse. The text stands as a convenient handbook, providing some of the wittiest and most acidic turns on familiar satirical conventions of the time, such as the "swinish multitude" metaphor and the comparison of King George III to the mad King Nebuchadnezzar. It will be an invaluable aid to students and researchers of the period - both as a highly amusing source of illustrative quotations, and as an encyclopaedia over the central sites of ideological struggle at the time.

Author : Charles Pigott
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
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ISBN : 9781385514818

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library W028925 A satire directed principally against the English government. Caption title: Pigott's political dictionary. New-York: --Printed for Thomas Greenleaf, no. 54, Wall-Street, M, DCC, XCVI. [1796] 198 p.; 18°

Author : Charles Pigott
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
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ISBN : 9781354317884

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Author : Charles D 1794 Pigott
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
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ISBN : 9781013918728

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.