The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life, Volume 1G. Davidson, 1824 |
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... Europe . Early in the year 1788 , he published in London , Prospects on the Rubicon . The United Provinces and France being em- broiled with Prussia , it was supposed that England would be drawn into the quarrel . It was written on this ...
... Europe . Early in the year 1788 , he published in London , Prospects on the Rubicon . The United Provinces and France being em- broiled with Prussia , it was supposed that England would be drawn into the quarrel . It was written on this ...
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... Europe . Antiqui- ty favors the same remark ; for the quiet and rural lives of the first patriarchs hath a happy something in them , which vanishes when we come to the history of Jewish royalty . Government by kings was first introduced ...
... Europe . Antiqui- ty favors the same remark ; for the quiet and rural lives of the first patriarchs hath a happy something in them , which vanishes when we come to the history of Jewish royalty . Government by kings was first introduced ...
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... Europe . But she has protected us , say some . That she hath en- grossed us is true , and defended the continent at our ex- pense as well as her own , is admitted , and she would have defended Turkey from the same motives , viz . for ...
... Europe . But she has protected us , say some . That she hath en- grossed us is true , and defended the continent at our ex- pense as well as her own , is admitted , and she would have defended Turkey from the same motives , viz . for ...
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... Europe , and not England , is the parent country of America . This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and relig- ious liberty from every part of Europe . Hither have they fled , not from the tender ...
... Europe , and not England , is the parent country of America . This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and relig- ious liberty from every part of Europe . Hither have they fled , not from the tender ...
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... Europe . Besides , what have we to do with setting the world at defiance ? Our plan is commerce , and that , well attended to , will secure us the peace and friendship of all Europe ; because it is the interest of all Europe to have ...
... Europe . Besides , what have we to do with setting the world at defiance ? Our plan is commerce , and that , well attended to , will secure us the peace and friendship of all Europe ; because it is the interest of all Europe to have ...
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Page 75 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 27 - And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Page 26 - And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
Page 32 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel ; and they said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; that we also may be like all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Page 370 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of...
Page 370 - Nor can any man, who acknowledges the being of God, be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of his religious sentiments or peculiar mode of religious worship...
Page 276 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
Page 34 - ... twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is true; for I answer roundly that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power taken any notice of her.
Page 290 - And we do further strictly enjoin and require all persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any lands within the countries above described, or upon any other lands which, not having been ceded to or purchased by us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such settlements.
Page 27 - Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.