Memoirs of the Life of Thomas Paine (Classic Reprint)

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Liverpool) to write the work, for which he was to receive five hundred pounds, in the event of his executing it to the satisfaction of his employer. These facts have been admitted by the anonymous assassin, Chalmers himself, and they re quire no comment.

The second Life of Mr. Paine is the production of an English Emigrant, of the name of Cheetham. This was pub lished at New York, in 1809. The writer, exclusive of his being a treacherous apostate, was an illiterate blockhead; his misrepresentations have not even the dress of decent language to recommend them, and the frequent contradictions with which the book abounds must entitle it to the contempt of every reader.

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