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Percy Bysshe Shelley

CHAPTER 3
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I throw a book to him." A postscript to this letter lets us see the propaganda from Harriet's point of view.

"I am sure you would laugh were you to see us give the pamphlets.

We throw them out of the window, and give them to men that we pass in the streets.

For myself, I am ready to die of laughter when it is done, and Percy looks so grave.

Yesterday he put one into a woman's hood of a cloak." The purpose of this address was to rouse the Irish people to a sense of their real misery, to point out that Catholic Emancipation and a Repeal of the Union Act were the only radical remedies for their wrongs, and to teach them the spirit in which they should attempt a revolution.


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