“The emperor relied on…” — Alexander Bryan Johnson

A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)

A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

The emperor relied on his popularity, the obedient habits of his subjects, and chiefly on the prejudices of the people against anything that could be subjected, right or wrong, to the charge of unconstitutionality.