Title page from The Tribune

The Tribune

A collection of articles and editorials from Thelwall’s magazine The Tribune which were originally published between March 1795 and September 1795.

Key Quotes

Rhetoric of Liberty

COME to a song of rustic growth List all my jolly hearers, Whose moral plainly tends to prove That all the world are sheerers, How shepherds sheer their silly sheep, How statesmen sheer the state, And all when they can sheer no more Are sheer’d themselves by fate. Then a sheering we will go,…