Henry St John. later Viscounr Bolingbroke,was one of the most ctrative political thinkers in eighteenth-century Britain,and his writings influenced British American Founding Fathers and French Revolutionaries.In this volume,modemised and fully annotated texts of his most important political works, the Dissertation upon Parties,the letter‘On the Spirit of Patriotism’,and The Idea of a Patriot King,are bought together for the first time.Bolingbroke was the first major ghinker to face the longterm

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Principal eventsim Bolingbroke’s life
Futher reading
Note on texts
A Dissertation upon Parties
On the Spirit of Patriotism
The Idea of a Patriot King
Biographical notes
Index of persons
Index of subjects
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