The Life of Thomas Paine: Author of Common Sense, The Crisis, Rights of Man, &c. &c. &cSouthwick and Pelsue, 1809 - 347 páginas |
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afterwards Age of Reason Agrarian Justice America answer army arrived assembly Beaumarchais believe British called Carver christian colonies committee of claims committee of foreign Common Sense conduct congress constitution convention court CRISIS Deane Deane's declaration deistical dollars election Elihu Palmer England executive favour foreign affairs France freedom French French revolution friends GEORGE CLINTON hereditary honour independence jacobin Jarvis Jefferson king labours legislature letter liberty lived London Madame Bonneville ment minister month nature never New-York nomination octavo Oldys opinion paid Paine's pamphlet Paris party Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia Pichegru popular present president principles printed probably publications published religion remarks republican republick Resolved revolution revolutionary Rights Robespierre secretary Silas Deane suffrage thing Thomas Addis Emmet Thomas Paine thought tion told United universal suffrage Washington weeks wish writing wrote
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Página 54 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Página 54 - But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people...
Página 55 - 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. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Página 51 - MEN being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
Página 38 - Sense burst from the press of the latter in a few days with an effect which has rarely been produced by types and paper in any age or country.
Página 207 - General Washington, for the character fits him. There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude; and I reckon it among those kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that God hath blessed him with uninterrupted health, and given him a mind that can even flourish upon care.
Página 50 - ... himself might deserve some decent degree of honors of his contemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them. One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule, by giving mankind an ass for a lion.
Página ii - In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Ma,ps, Charts, and Dooks, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Página 341 - I know not if the society of people, called Quakers, admit a person to be buried in their burying ground, who does not belong to their society, but if they do, or will admit me, I would prefer being buried there ; my father belonged to that profession, and I was partly brought up in it.
Página 237 - THE LITTLE , CORNER OF THE WORLD. In the region of clouds, where the whirlwinds arise, My CASTLE of FANCY was built; The turrets reflected the blue of the skies, And the windows with sun-beams were gilt. The rainbow sometimes in its beautiful state, Enamell'd the mansion around; And the figures that fancy in clouds can create, Supplied me with gardens and ground.
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Constructing American Lives: Biography & Culture in Nineteenth-century America Scott E. Casper Visualização de excertos - 1999 |