The Life of Thomas Paine: With a History of His Literary, Political, and Religious Career in America, France, and England. To which is Added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett (hitherto Unpublished)Putnam's, 1893 |
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The Life of Thomas Paine: With a History of His Literary ..., Volume 2 Moncure Daniel Conway Visualização integral - 1892 |
The Life of Thomas Paine: With a History of His Literary ..., Volume 2 Moncure Daniel Conway Visualização integral - 1892 |
The Life of Thomas Paine: With a History of His Literary, Political, and ... Moncure Daniel Conway Visualização integral - 1893 |
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Página 296 - You expressed a wish to get a passage to this country in a public vessel. Mr. Dawson is charged with orders to the captain of the Maryland to receive and accommodate you back if you can be ready to depart at such short warning.
Página 202 - I well remember, when about seven or eight years of age, hearing a sermon read by a relation of mine, who was a great devotee of the church, upon the subject of what is called redemption by the death of the Son of God. After the sermon was ended, I went into the garden, and as I was going down the garden steps (for I perfectly recollect the spot) I revolted at the recollection of what I had heard, and thought to myself that it was making God...
Página 42 - Les rois, les aristocrates, les tyrans, quels qu'ils soient, sont des esclaves révoltés contre le souverain de la terre qui est le genre humain et contre le législateur de l'Univers qui est la Nature.
Página 365 - This is worse than visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations.
Página 248 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Página 101 - Nothing that is here said can apply, even with the most distant disrespect, to the real character of Jesus Christ. He was a virtuous and an amiable man. The morality that he preached and practised was of the most benevolent kind, and, though similar systems of morality had been preached by Confucius, and by some of the Greek philosophers, many years before; by the Quakers since, and by many good men in all ages; it has not been exceeded...
Página 263 - I believe in one God, and no more ; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man ; and I believe .that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Página 232 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Página 212 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Página 202 - After the sermon was ended I went into the garden, and as I was going down the garden steps (for I perfectly recollect the spot) I revolted at the recollection of what I had heard, and thought to myself that it was making God Almighty act like a passionate man that killed his son when he could not revenge himself any other way; and as I was sure a man would be hanged that did such a thing, I could not see for what purpose they preached such sermons.