Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… eighteenth-century life: Burney, by now the widowed Mme d’Arblay, praised the literary salons of her youth for promoting freedom of speech, controversial ideas, and even conflict, contrasting them to what she perceived to be the flaws of early … cannot rationally 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 …
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