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He describes conservatives or conservatism as "virulent," "truculent," "intolerant," "hardline," "bellicose," "shrill," "overheated," and "adamantine." Edmund Burke was an "archconservative."
[William Hazlitt]'s radicalism was not "virulent," but "unswerving." [Leigh Hunt] was not a "virulent" liberal, but an "iconic" one.See the full content of this document
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The English Opium Eater
A Biography of Thomas De QuinceyBy Robert MorrisonWeidenfeld and Nicolson, 462 pages, $38In Britain, the first half of the 19th century was an age of gre...See the full content of this document
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