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enlightenment

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1. He was not being sincere.

Reply to brentspeak (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2014, 11:58 PM

Jul 2014

The comment is a play on something Uncle Toby said to a fly in Sterne's "Tristram Shandy": "Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me."

Burr was a nasty man.

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Aaron Burr: "Had I read Sterne more and Voltaire less, (I might not have dueled & killed Hamilton)" [View all] brentspeak Jul 2014 OP

He was not being sincere. enlightenment Jul 2014 #1

Yes, from all accounts, Burr wanted to kill Hamilton brentspeak Jul 2014 #4

apparently reading Voltaire hfojvt Jul 2014 #2

Jefferson was influenced by Voltaire, but without brentspeak Jul 2014 #5

I was poking fun at Voltaire hfojvt Jul 2014 #6

Burr would almost make Dick Cheney a statesman by comparison. gordianot Jul 2014 #3