The Life of Thomas PaineAmerica printed: London: Reprinted for A. Maxwell, 1817 - 187 páginas |
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... Paris , I draw the chief part of my information from noto- rious facts and gentlemen equally distinguished in diplomacy and in literature , have favoured me with their correspondence . After his return to the United States from France ...
... Paris , I draw the chief part of my information from noto- rious facts and gentlemen equally distinguished in diplomacy and in literature , have favoured me with their correspondence . After his return to the United States from France ...
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... Paris . He advises Sir W. to go home , and pronounces the States unconquerable . This number is the most judicious and able of the series . No. 6 of the CRISIS , without date , ( m ) is addressed to the " Inhabitants of America . " " As ...
... Paris . He advises Sir W. to go home , and pronounces the States unconquerable . This number is the most judicious and able of the series . No. 6 of the CRISIS , without date , ( m ) is addressed to the " Inhabitants of America . " " As ...
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... Paris , ( v ) to receive from Beaumarchais , his colleague in the fraud , the infamous re- ward of his infamous conduct . Having finished his disputa- tion with Deane , and being , it is probable , uneasy in the service of Mr. Biddle ...
... Paris , ( v ) to receive from Beaumarchais , his colleague in the fraud , the infamous re- ward of his infamous conduct . Having finished his disputa- tion with Deane , and being , it is probable , uneasy in the service of Mr. Biddle ...
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... Paris he exhibited to the Academy of Sciences the model of his bridge . At this period the French revolutionary principles , princi- ples which uprooted and laid waste every thing valuable , were vigorously germinating in that ill ...
... Paris he exhibited to the Academy of Sciences the model of his bridge . At this period the French revolutionary principles , princi- ples which uprooted and laid waste every thing valuable , were vigorously germinating in that ill ...
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... Paris for commotion . " The edicts , he says , were again ten- dered to them , and the count D'Artois undertook to act as representative for the king . For this purpose , he came from Versailles to Paris , in a train of procession ; and ...
... Paris for commotion . " The edicts , he says , were again ten- dered to them , and the count D'Artois undertook to act as representative for the king . For this purpose , he came from Versailles to Paris , in a train of procession ; and ...
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Página 32 - 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.
Página 32 - 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 iv - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Página 31 - But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people...
Página 109 - Voltaire has remarked that King William never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on 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 kinds 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...
Página 30 - 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 26 - Attached to your majesty's person, family, and government, with all the devotion that principle and affection can inspire, connected with Great Britain by the strongest ties that can unite societies, and deploring every event that tends in any degree to weaken them, we solemnly assure your majesty, that we not only most ardently desire the former harmony between her and these colonies may be restored, bat that a concord may be established between them upon so firm a basis as to perpetuate its blessings,...
Página 181 - The People of the State of New York, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent, to all to whom these presents shall come, or may concern, SEND GREETING : , KNOW YE, That...
Página 109 - And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.
Página 118 - 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 a short warning.