Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 01 (of 20)

Book III. ch. 22, sec. 5, and Book IV. ch. 27, sec. 3),--Montesquieu,

who casts upon it a flood of light (Esprit des Lois, Liv. XXVIII. ch. 18-33),--Sismondi, humane and interesting (Histoire des Français, Part. IV. ch. 11, Tom. VIII. pp. 72-78),--Guizot, in a work of remarkable historic beauty, more grave than Montesquieu, and enlightened by a better philosophy (Histoire de la Civi...