Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… the advancement of polite letters. How cumbersome soever her language, her opinions concerning the value of political debate still resound today . Thus, she wrote about The Literary Club : Dissensions through politics must necessarily be … be lamented; they are the unavoidable offsprings of the most exalted exercise of the human faculties, freedom of debate; that freedom whence spring independence, justice, and liberty [...] In truth, to exclude from meetings formed for …
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