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 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This essay is a 1766 pamphlet authored under the pseudonym N.T. Pharmacopola. The pamphlet engages with the heated British political debate over how to handle the American colonies, taking aim at the popular standing of William Pitt (referred to as “Mr. P–t”) and critiquing the radical notions of liberty associated with the controversial politician John Wilkes and his followers.
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