The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12). Edmund Burke

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them to us as good Frenchmen. I put them to the proof. Where are the legions? How! thirty thousand Savoyards,—are they not armed to defend, in concert with us, their liberty?—BRISSOT.

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Portefeuille is the word in the original. It signifies all movable property which may be represented in bonds, notes, bills, stocks, or any sort of public or private securities. I do not know of a single word in English that answers it: I have therefore substituted that of Iron Chests, as coming nearest to the idea.—TRANSLATOR.

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In the original les reduire à la sansculotterie.

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Mr. Paine is a Norfolk man, from Thetford.