Titles by N.T. Pharmacopola

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The pseudonym N. T. Pharmacopola is of an unknown satirical author seeking to “remedy” the tensions between England and her colonies by drawing on anatomical and medical analogies.

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The author is critical of William Pitt the Elder and while not uncritical of English politics, supports the right of Parliament to both tax and regulate the colonies. He is one of the earliest writers to draw attention to a distinction between what is legal and constitutional.

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Titles

Good Humor: Or, a Way with the Colonies. Wherein Is Occasionally Enquired into Mr. P–t’s Claim of Popularity, and the Principles of Virtuous Liberty, as Taught in the School of Mr. Wilkes and Other Peripatetics

N.T. Pharmacopola

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