Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… philosophy, who had famously called the British ‘men of untaught feelings’ in his Reflections on the Revolution in France 13 and had qualified the rhetoric of the French revolutionaries about the constitution civile du clergé in the … of the Anti-Jacobin [1799] (London: J. Wright, 1801), p. 233-256. 13 . Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790], ed. L. G. Mitchell, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 87. The history of the word ‘cant’ in the … A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) … In the eighteenth century, ‘cant’ was a word widely used in controversies to disqualify the opponent's …
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