The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life, Volumen1G. Davidson, 1824 |
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... honors . There is a vast differ- ence between a poor patriot and a rich one : both may act from the same motives and yet get different appellations . Paine also received from the state of Pennsylvania 5007. cur- rency ; and from New ...
... honors . There is a vast differ- ence between a poor patriot and a rich one : both may act from the same motives and yet get different appellations . Paine also received from the state of Pennsylvania 5007. cur- rency ; and from New ...
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... honors to their deceased kings , and the Christian world hath improved on the plan by doing the same to their living ones . How impious is the title of sacred majesty , applied to a worm , who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling ...
... honors to their deceased kings , and the Christian world hath improved on the plan by doing the same to their living ones . How impious is the title of sacred majesty , applied to a worm , who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling ...
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... honor , should disapprove of a form of government which so impiously invades the pre- rogative of heaven . Monarchy is ranked in scripture as one of the sins of the Jews , for which a curse in reserve is denounced against them . The ...
... honor , should disapprove of a form of government which so impiously invades the pre- rogative of heaven . Monarchy is ranked in scripture as one of the sins of the Jews , for which a curse in reserve is denounced against them . The ...
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... honors than were bestowed upon him , so the givers of those honors could have no power to give away the right of pos- terity , and though they might say , " We choose you for our head , " they could not without manifest injustice 28 ...
... honors than were bestowed upon him , so the givers of those honors could have no power to give away the right of pos- terity , and though they might say , " We choose you for our head , " they could not without manifest injustice 28 ...
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... honor . The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak ; the wound will enlarge with the tree , and posterity read it in full grown characters . By referring the matter from ...
... honor . The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak ; the wound will enlarge with the tree , and posterity read it in full grown characters . By referring the matter from ...
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Página 75 - 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 27 - And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Página 26 - And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
Página 32 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel ; and they said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; that we also may be like all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Página 370 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of...
Página 370 - Nor can any man, who acknowledges the being of God, be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of his religious sentiments or peculiar mode of religious worship...
Página 276 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
Página 34 - ... twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is true; for I answer roundly that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power taken any notice of her.
Página 290 - And we do further strictly enjoin and require all persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any lands within the countries above described, or upon any other lands which, not having been ceded to or purchased by us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such settlements.
Página 27 - Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.