| Elizabeth Barnes - 1997 - 176 páginas
...Paine, "and Art cannot supply her place." Rather than continue with a fiction of the family, therefore, "let us come to a final separation, and not leave...the violated unmeaning names of parent and child" (86). In the decade after Common Sense was published, the first American fiction of the family made... | |
| Thomas Paine - 2000 - 388 páginas
...contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of Europe absolute. Witness Denmark and Sweden. Wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for God's...act, yet a year or two undeceived us; as well may we suppose that nations which have been once defeated will never renew the quarrel. As to government... | |
| Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 páginas
...contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of Europe absolute. Witness Denmark and Sweden. Wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for God's...attempt it again is idle and visionary; we thought so as the repeal of the stamp act, yet a year or two undeceived us; as well may we suppose that nations... | |
| Laura Janara - 2002 - 270 páginas
...childishness — There was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease." So "let us come to a final separation, and not leave...throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."71 These richly symbolic condemnations of English authority were borne of genuine struggle to... | |
| Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 páginas
...was on the threshold of its manhood, so "for God's sake let us come to a final separation," he wrote, "and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats...the violated unmeaning names of parent and child." 31 Of course, Paine's purpose in Common Sense was to generate popular support for the war for independence,... | |
| Donald E. Pease, Robyn Wiegman - 2002 - 636 páginas
...act to the next generation, and therefore would burden them with sufferings that could be prevented: "Wherefore since nothing but blows will do, for God's sake, let us come to a f1nal separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning... | |
| Merrill Jensen - 2003 - 576 páginas
...than that very measure, to make the Kings of Europe absolute. Witness Denmark and Sweden. Wherfore, since nothing but blows will do, for God's sake let...and visionary, we thought so at the repeal of the stamp-act, yet a year or two undeceived us; as well may we suppose that nations which have been once... | |
| Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove - 2011 - 667 páginas
...contributed more than that very measure to make the Kings of Europe absolute: Witness Denmark and Sweden. Wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for God's...act, yet a year or two undeceived us; as well may we suppose that nations, which have been once defeated, will never renew the quarrel. As to government... | |
| Thomas Paine - 2004 - 260 páginas
...contributed more than that very measure to make the Kings of Europe absolute: Witness Denmark and Sweden. Wherefore since nothing but blows will do, for God's...the violated unmeaning names of parent and child. 1 John Milton (1608-74) is generally considered one of the greatest English poets. His major works... | |
| Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 páginas
...contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of Europe absolute ; witness Denmark and Sweden. Wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for God's...; and not leave the next generation to be cutting of throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child. To say they will never attempt... | |
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