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I presume Clarence Hervey stands at this instant, in your imagination, as the representative of all the gentlemen in England; and he, instead of Anacharsis Cloots, is now, to be sure, l'orateur du genre humain.
Belinda 1801
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Most other political cosmopolitans did not go as far as Cloots.
Cosmopolitanism Kleingeld, Pauline 2006
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Cloots advocated the abolition of all existing states and the establishment of a single world state under which all human individuals would be directly subsumed.
Cosmopolitanism Kleingeld, Pauline 2006
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The very name of Cloots suggested humor, and nothing could have been more delightful and graphic than the whole episode as he related it.
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Commune leaders (Hébert, Chaumette, Cloots) were executed on March 24.
1794 2001
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Cloots, baron de, Jean Baptiste du Valde-Grâce, French leader
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An 'now, auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkin', [Hoofs]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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The very name of Cloots suggested humor, and nothing could have been more delightful and graphic than the whole episode as he related it.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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The very name of Cloots suggested humor, and nothing could have been more delightful and graphic than the whole episode as he related it.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Anacharsis Cloots, 'orator of the human race,' condemned to die by all the Monarchies of the world; but everything was to be feared of him, -- he was a Prussian.
Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884
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