Junius Unmasked: Or Thomas Paine the Author of the Letters of Junius, and the Declaration of Independence ...J. Gray & Company, 1872 - 329 páginas |
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... present Commander - in - chief is the most . generous man alive . Nature has been sparing of her gifts to this noble lord ; but where birth and fortune all of which Lord Weymouth would certainly say- and therefore ( which his Lordship ...
... present Commander - in - chief is the most . generous man alive . Nature has been sparing of her gifts to this noble lord ; but where birth and fortune all of which Lord Weymouth would certainly say- and therefore ( which his Lordship ...
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... present times . They will either con- clude that our distresses were imaginary , or that we had the good fortune to be governed by men of acknowl- edged integrity and wisdom . They will not believe it possible that their ancestors could ...
... present times . They will either con- clude that our distresses were imaginary , or that we had the good fortune to be governed by men of acknowl- edged integrity and wisdom . They will not believe it possible that their ancestors could ...
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... present system of government , the period is not very distant at which you will have the means of redress in your own power : it may be nearer , perhaps , than any of us expect ; and I would warn you to be prepared for it . " If Thomas ...
... present system of government , the period is not very distant at which you will have the means of redress in your own power : it may be nearer , perhaps , than any of us expect ; and I would warn you to be prepared for it . " If Thomas ...
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... present king , bringing his ministers to trial , and setting up the Duke of Gloucester in his stead , would assuredly carry their point while you were groveling here ignorant of the matter . As I send all my papers to England , this ...
... present king , bringing his ministers to trial , and setting up the Duke of Gloucester in his stead , would assuredly carry their point while you were groveling here ignorant of the matter . As I send all my papers to England , this ...
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... present transactions , and seemed desirous of having the first volume out the next spring . I had then formed the outlines of Com- mon Sense and finished nearly the first part ; and , as I supposed the doctor's design in getting out a ...
... present transactions , and seemed desirous of having the first volume out the next spring . I had then formed the outlines of Com- mon Sense and finished nearly the first part ; and , as I supposed the doctor's design in getting out a ...
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Página 225 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Página 224 - For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses: For abolishing the...
Página 298 - 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. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Página 235 - When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Página 258 - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us.
Página 211 - For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Página 256 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Página 227 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Página 224 - He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation...
Página 258 - ... connected with Great Britain. I repeat the challenge ; not a single advantage is derived. Our corn will fetch its price in any market in Europe, and our imported goods must be paid for buy them where we will. But the injuries and disadvantages...