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In lobbying the kingdom of France to take America's side against Britain, Franklin did not appeal to the Rights of Man; Franklin appealed to France's evident self-interest in weakening the British Empire.
Robert Naiman: Could a "Great Negotiation" End the War in Afghanistan? 2010
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In lobbying the kingdom of France to take America's side against Britain, Franklin did not appeal to the Rights of Man; Franklin appealed to France's evident self-interest in weakening the British Empire.
Robert Naiman: Could a 'Great Negotiation' End the War in Afghanistan? 2010
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From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: Pluviose, Year 40 of the republican era, which was destined to survive even the mandate of the
Les Miserables 2008
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In October 1976 the League for the Rights of Man published a report on the murder of 130 children by security forces, because they allegedly were the sons and daughters of guerrillas.
Argentine Terror Cabrera, Pablo 1977
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Contract_ and the _Declaration of the Rights of Man_ published in the great French Revolution.
A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton
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Our Declaration of the Rights of Man shows nothing which the first
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various
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As for the Rights of Man, which his right honourable friend had ridiculed as visionary, he contended that they were the basis and foundation of every rational constitution.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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_Declaration of the Rights of Man_; he subsequently became a lieutenant-general in 1814, a peer of France in 1815, and duc d'Avaray in
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Jacques, assailed by the prospect of smoky industrialism, and fighting for the Rights of Man.
Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1931
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= -- To counteract the campaign of hate against the French, Thomas Paine replied to Burke in another of his famous tracts, _The Rights of Man_, which was given to the American public in an edition containing a letter of approval from Jefferson.
History of the United States Mary Ritter Beard 1917
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