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William Blackstone
1723 — 1780
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Enlightenment
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James Boswell
1740 — 1795
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Captain James Cook
1728 — 1779
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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
1735 — 1813
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John Dickinson
1732 — 1808
American
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
English
Edward Gibbon
1737 — 1794
English
William Godwin
1756 — 1836
Scottish
David Hume
1711 — 1776
English
Samuel Johnson
1709 — 1784
Swedish
Carl Linnaeus
1707 — 1778
English
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
1709 — 1773
American
George Mason
1725 — 1792
British-American
Thomas Paine
1737 — 1809
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Adam Smith
1723 — 1790
Scottish
Tobias Smollett
1721 — 1771
Italian
Giambattista Vico
1668 — 1744
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Voltaire
1694 — 1778
English
Horace Walpole
1717 — 1797
American
Noah Webster
1758 — 1843
English
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 — 1797