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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... conquest , hath known some few good monarchs , but groaned beneath a much larger number of bad ones ; yet no man in his senses can say that their claim under William the Conqueror is a very honorable A French bastard , landing with an ...
... conquest , hath known some few good monarchs , but groaned beneath a much larger number of bad ones ; yet no man in his senses can say that their claim under William the Conqueror is a very honorable A French bastard , landing with an ...
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... conquest ; in which time there have been ( including the revolution ) no less than eight civil wars and nineteen rebellions . Where- fore , instead of making for peace , it makes against it , and destroys the very foundation it seems to ...
... conquest ; in which time there have been ( including the revolution ) no less than eight civil wars and nineteen rebellions . Where- fore , instead of making for peace , it makes against it , and destroys the very foundation it seems to ...
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... Conquest may be effected under the pretence of friendship ; and ourselves , after a long and brave resistance , be at last cheated into slavery . And if her ships are not to be admitted into our harbors , I would ask , how is she to ...
... Conquest may be effected under the pretence of friendship ; and ourselves , after a long and brave resistance , be at last cheated into slavery . And if her ships are not to be admitted into our harbors , I would ask , how is she to ...
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... conquest of America by which England is to be benefited , and that would in a great measure con- tinue , were the countries as independent of each other as France and Spain ; because in many articles neither can go to a better market ...
... conquest of America by which England is to be benefited , and that would in a great measure con- tinue , were the countries as independent of each other as France and Spain ; because in many articles neither can go to a better market ...
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... conquest , and our back- wardness tends only to prolong the war . As we have , without any good effect therefrom , withheld our trade to obtain a redress of our grievances , let us now try the al- ternative , by independently redressing ...
... conquest , and our back- wardness tends only to prolong the war . As we have , without any good effect therefrom , withheld our trade to obtain a redress of our grievances , let us now try the al- ternative , by independently redressing ...
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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.