Glossary
- cacoethes scribendi Latin for “an irresistible urge to write”
- calumny defamation, a false accusation
- Gil Blas a French novel, L’Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, written by Alain-René Lesage in the early eighteenth century
- Luther Martin one of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention who refused to sign the new Constitution (1748–1826)
- magnanimity generosity of spirit
- Mandeville Bernard de Mandeville (1670–1733), Dutch physician who moved to England, where he translated Continental literature into English and wrote satires
- McHenry James McHenry (1753–1816), delegate to the Constitutional Convention from Maryland
- revile here, an obsolete usage to refer to language that is abusive or contemptuous
- sanguine hopeful
- shew obsolete spelling of show
- star-chamber a legal body that issues arbitrary rulings in secret proceedings
- subterfuges misrepresentations, stratagems designed to deceive
