Titles by Cato

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Cato was a common pseudonym of eighteenth-century political writers famously deployed by the Old Whig essayists of the 1720s, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon.

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Writers using this name were invoking the memory of Cato the Younger of late republican Rome, who stood firmly against Julius Caesar. It also invoked loyalty to Old Whig ideas.

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Thoughts on a Question of Importance Proposed to the Public, Whether is it Probable that the Immense Extent of Territory Acquired by this Nation at the Late Peace, will Operate toward Prosperity, or to the Ruin of the Island of Great Britain?

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