 It was to bring forward and establish the representative system of government, as the work itself will show, that was the leading principle with me in writing that work, and all my other works, during the progress of the revolution: And I followed the...  Miscellaneous Letters & Essays: On Various Subjects - Страница 257написао/ла Thomas Paine - 1819 - 261 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1892 - 408 страница
...corrupt system of the English government, would not have interested me with the unabated ardour that it did. It was to bring forward and establish the representative system of government that was the leading principle with me." So he spake to Congress, and to its president he said that... | |
 | 1859 - 784 страница
...however, proper for me to add, that the mere independence of America, were it to have been followed by a system of government modelled after the corrupt system of the English government, would not have interested me with the unabated ardor it did." " It will be convenient to me to know... | |
 | Neil Baldwin - 2005 - 270 страница
...government, the result will be an economically healthy, lasting, emancipated republic for posterity. "It was to bring forward and establish the representative system of government," Paine wrote in later years, "that was the leading principle with me in writing [Common Sense]."31 Paine's... | |
 | Elsie Begler - 2007 - 319 страница
...Federalist 10 and 39, as do many eighteenth-century republicans.) Near the end of his life, Paine wrote: "It was to bring forward and establish the representative system of Government that was the leading principle with me in writing that work [Common Sense], and all my other works... | |
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