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NHG-P.782.036
21 Sep 1782:12 (26/1351)
London. . . July 16. . . Earl Shelburne declares of American
Independence-at the beginning of the sessions his Lordship
declared, that whenever American as independent, the sun of
England would set. -His Lordship has been converted from his
old political system, as Copernicus was from the Ptolemac-He
now sees that the world goes round the sun, not that the sun
goes round the world; and and [sic] tho' the sun of England
may set with American independence, yet he looks to see her
rise again in all her pristine glory from the west. -The
excuse given for his Lordship's change of opinion, is not
unlike that of the Mock Doctor in the farce, who, being
contradicted by his patient for asserting that the heart lay
at the right, and the liver on the left side, assured him
than the system of the human body has been totally reversed
by order of the College of Physicians.
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