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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... circumstances , reduced him to the necessity of reminding it of its duty . Very few men render services to any country with- out being paid for them ; some get money , and others , who hap- pen to have that , get fame and honors . There ...
... circumstances , reduced him to the necessity of reminding it of its duty . Very few men render services to any country with- out being paid for them ; some get money , and others , who hap- pen to have that , get fame and honors . There ...
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... circumstances , fortunately for him , prevented ; as the ves- sel in which he embarked was boarded by a British frigate and strictly searched . After a number of unsuccessful attempts to procure a safe passage , he finally succeeded ...
... circumstances , fortunately for him , prevented ; as the ves- sel in which he embarked was boarded by a British frigate and strictly searched . After a number of unsuccessful attempts to procure a safe passage , he finally succeeded ...
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... circumstances have , and will arise , which are not local , but universal , and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected , and in the event of which , their affections are interested . The laying a country ...
... circumstances have , and will arise , which are not local , but universal , and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected , and in the event of which , their affections are interested . The laying a country ...
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... case my own , and I protest , that were I driven from house and home , my property de- stroyed , and my circumstances ruined , that as a man , sensible of injuries , I could never relish the doctrine COMMON SENSE . 43.
... case my own , and I protest , that were I driven from house and home , my property de- stroyed , and my circumstances ruined , that as a man , sensible of injuries , I could never relish the doctrine COMMON SENSE . 43.
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... circumstances would be intoler- able . The more seaport - towns we had , the more should we have both to defend and to lose . Our present num- bers are so happily proportioned to our wants , that no man need be idle . The diminution of ...
... circumstances would be intoler- able . The more seaport - towns we had , the more should we have both to defend and to lose . Our present num- bers are so happily proportioned to our wants , that no man need be idle . The diminution of ...
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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.