TY - JOUR
AU - Colbourn, Trevor
AB - 186 Reviews of Books Greek, and be a Whig," and recall that he spent a lord mayor's banquet discuss- ing the Alexandrian grammarian, Lycophron, with Charles James Fox. Critique of Pure Reason, A good bed book is more to be desired than another and Warren Derry proves it in this volume as discursive as Parr himself. Here again one eighteenth century is talking, talking about polities, education, tolera- tion, law reform, and scholarship, often, it seems, in quotations. Rapin made Parr a Whig, and Fox kept him so: if no innovations be attempted woe be to posterity. More and better education was his solution for the world's ills, especially in that tortuous area, crime and punishment. For a man who prescribed flogging as sure stimulus to leaming, "Dr. Sam" kept strange company; he admired Bentham and loved Romilly, supporting the latter most vigorously in the campaign for law reform. Wide-ranging as were his interests and his sympathies, and no doubt their seed plot, scholarship was his first love and his last: "Porson has more Greek; but no man's horse carries more Latin than mine." Yet he was a king without a kingdom. A free conversational dispenser of leaming, he 
TI - Agents and Merchants: British Colonial Policy and the Origins of the American Revolution, 1763ȓ1775. By Jack M. Sosin. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1965. Pp. xvi, 267. $5.50.)
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/72.1.186
DA - 1966-10-01
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SP - 186
EP - 187
VL - 72
IS - 1
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