The Life of Thomas Paine: Author of Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, Letter to the Addressers, &c. &cT. C. Rickman, 1819 - 277 страница |
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... thing further than to say , that I affect not to rank with literary men , nor , as they rise , do I wish it ; that authorship is neither my * See Preface to my " Poetical Seraps , " 2 vols . where this subject is further enlarged on ...
... thing further than to say , that I affect not to rank with literary men , nor , as they rise , do I wish it ; that authorship is neither my * See Preface to my " Poetical Seraps , " 2 vols . where this subject is further enlarged on ...
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... thing jarring should have occurred between two men who were both staunch supporters of the cause of freedom , and thus have given the enemies of liberty occasion to triumph because its advocates were not more than mortal . The dark and ...
... thing jarring should have occurred between two men who were both staunch supporters of the cause of freedom , and thus have given the enemies of liberty occasion to triumph because its advocates were not more than mortal . The dark and ...
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... thing to oppose the practice of it , " but it is quite a different thing to expose its 66 66 errors , to reason on its defects , and to show cause why it should be repealed , or why " another ought to " place . be substituted in 21.
... thing to oppose the practice of it , " but it is quite a different thing to expose its 66 66 errors , to reason on its defects , and to show cause why it should be repealed , or why " another ought to " place . be substituted in 21.
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... thing to the purpose . " I do however wonder that these angry anta- gonists do not recollect that the clamour " they raise serves only to prove their fears , " and that if the writings of this man are , as 66 66 they would represent ...
... thing to the purpose . " I do however wonder that these angry anta- gonists do not recollect that the clamour " they raise serves only to prove their fears , " and that if the writings of this man are , as 66 66 they would represent ...
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... thing less than a due appreciation of his cha- racter . " It is necessary for me to tell you how " much all your countrymen , I speak , of the ( 6 ( 6 great mass of the people , are interested in your welfare ; they have not forgotten ...
... thing less than a due appreciation of his cha- racter . " It is necessary for me to tell you how " much all your countrymen , I speak , of the ( 6 ( 6 great mass of the people , are interested in your welfare ; they have not forgotten ...
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Age of Reason AMERICA bend Americans in Paris appear army bears a plant believe Bonneville called character Cheetham's circumstance citizen COLUMBIA be slaves Common Sense conduct congress convention death deist ditto dollars earth bears England Europe expence favour feel France FREEDOM defend French convention French revolution Grimstone guillotine gun-boats guns happiness honour human Joel Barlow king land letter liberty live London Lord Louis Capet Louis XVI mankind matter mind Miranda nation ne'er never New-York Nootka Sound opinion Paine's Paris Pennsylvanian Magazine person Philadelphia political principles printed prison prosecution published reader Robespierre rolls its waves scene sent ship SIR ROBERT SMITH society sons of AMERICA sons of COLUMBIA tell thing Thomas Addis Emmet Thomas Paine thou thro tion took truth united their RIGHTS Washington whole writings
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Страница 208 - And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Страница 75 - Your presence may remind Congress of your past services to this country; and if it is in my power to impress them, command my best exertions with freedom, as they will be rendered cheerfully by one, who entertains a lively sense of the importance of your works, and who, with much pleasure, subscribes himself, Your sincere friend, G. WASHINGTON...
Страница 235 - The people of the State of New York, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent, to all to whom these presents shall come or may concern, Send Greeting: Know ye, that...
Страница 156 - The true Deist has but one Deity; and his religion consists in contemplating the power, wisdom, and benignity of the Deity in his works, and in endeavoring to imitate him in everything moral, scientifical, and mechanical.
Страница 147 - It will not then be said, here stood a temple of vast antiquity, — here rose a Babel of invisible height, or there a palace of sumptuous extravagance ; but here, ah painful thought ! the noblest work of human wisdom, the grandest scene of human glory, the fair cause of freedom rose and fell...
Страница 223 - Like a native it flourished and bore; The fame of its fruit drew the nations around, To seek out this peaceable shore. Unmindful of names or distinctions they came, For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endued, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree. Beneath this fair tree, like the patriarchs of old, Their bread in contentment they ate, Unvexed with the troubles of silver or gold, The cares of the grand and the great.
Страница 148 - The room in which I lodged was on the ground floor, and one of a long range of rooms under a gallery, and the door of it opened outward and flat against the wall, so that when it was open the inside of the door appeared outward, and the contrary when it was shut. I had three comrades, fellow-prisoners with me, Joseph Vanhuile of Bruges, since president of the municipality of that town, Michael Robins, and Bastini of Louvain.
Страница 222 - IN a chariot of light from the regions of day, The Goddess of Liberty came; Ten thousand celestials directed the way, And hither conducted the dame. A fair budding branch from the gardens above, Where millions with millions agree, She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, And the plant she named Liberty Tree.
Страница 13 - Paine's publications appear to have had in procuring the repeal of some oppressive taxes in the present session of Parliament; and they hope that this adoption of a small part of Mr Paine's ideas will be followed by the most strenuous exertions to accomplish a...
Страница 61 - I did, to be silent: and if in the course of more than seven years, I have rendered her any service, I have likewise added something to the reputation of literature, by freely and disinterestedly employing it in the great cause of mankind and showing that there may be genius without prostitution.