M. de (Jan Chrzciciel) Komarzewski

I have been lately reading Komarzewski's Coup d'oeil on the history of Poland. Tho' without any charms of stile or composition, it gives a lesson, which all our countryman should study; the exampe of a country erased from the map of the world by the dissensions of it's own citizens. The papers of every day read them the counter lesson of the impossibility of subduing a people acting with an undivided will. . . .

-- Thomas Jefferson to W. Duane, 1811