Thomas PaineThe Roycrofters, 1907 - 31 páginas |
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... head of every regiment , and it was so done . In 1781 Paine was sent to France with Col. Laurens to negotiate a loan The errand was successful , and Paine then made influential acquaintances , which were later to be renewed . He ...
... head of every regiment , and it was so done . In 1781 Paine was sent to France with Col. Laurens to negotiate a loan The errand was successful , and Paine then made influential acquaintances , which were later to be renewed . He ...
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... head that produced " The Age of Reason " cannot be identified . And the end is not yet ! HE genius of Paine was a flower that blossomed slowly . But life is a sequence and the man who does great work has been in training for it . There ...
... head that produced " The Age of Reason " cannot be identified . And the end is not yet ! HE genius of Paine was a flower that blossomed slowly . But life is a sequence and the man who does great work has been in training for it . There ...
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... The charge against him was not pressed he was simply not wanted , and the state- ment by the head exciseman that a man working for the government should not criticise the government was pretty good 146 GREAT REFORMERS - Thomas Paine.
... The charge against him was not pressed he was simply not wanted , and the state- ment by the head exciseman that a man working for the government should not criticise the government was pretty good 146 GREAT REFORMERS - Thomas Paine.
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... heads of Washington and Jefferson . Even Franklin came in for his share of blame , and it was shown that he expended an even hundred thousand pounds in Europe , with no explanation of what he had done with the money When called upon to ...
... heads of Washington and Jefferson . Even Franklin came in for his share of blame , and it was shown that he expended an even hundred thousand pounds in Europe , with no explanation of what he had done with the money When called upon to ...
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... head , " died the death he had reserved for Paine ; Marat , " the terrible dwarf , " horribly honest , fearfully sincere , jealous and afraid of Paine , hinting that he was the secret emissary of England , was stabbed to his death by a ...
... head , " died the death he had reserved for Paine ; Marat , " the terrible dwarf , " horribly honest , fearfully sincere , jealous and afraid of Paine , hinting that he was the secret emissary of England , was stabbed to his death by a ...
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Página 136 - 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. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Página 149 - For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
Página 153 - War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances, such a combination of foreign matters, that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Página 149 - Paine is the first American writer who had a literary style, and we have not had so many since but that you may count them on the fingers of one hand. Note this sample of antithesis: " There are but two natural sources of wealth — the earth and the ocean — and to lose the right to either, in our situation, is to put the other up for sale." Here is a little tribute from Paine's pen to America which some of our boomers of boom towns might do well to use: America has now outgrown the state of infancy....
Página 153 - Nature can not be dismissed, the calamities of war and the miseries it inflicts upon the human species, the thousands and tens of thousands of every age and sex who are rendered wretched by the event, surely there is something in the heart of man that calls upon him to think! Surely there is some tender chord, tuned by the hand of the Creator, that still struggles to emit in the hearing of the soul a note of sorrowing sympathy. Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness...
Página 163 - That the moral duty of man consists in imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God manifested in the Creation towards all his creatures. That seeing as we daily do the goodness of God to all men, it is an example calling upon all men to practise the same towards each other ; and consequently that every thing of persecution and revenge between man and man, and every thing of cruelty to animals, is a violation of moral duty.
Página 150 - ... the soil. The cottages as it were of yesterday have grown to villages, and the villages to cities; and while proud antiquity, like a skeleton in rags, parades the streets of other nations, their genius, as if sickened and disgusted with the phantom, comes hither for recovery.
Página 148 - A little thing sometimes produces a great effect ; an insult offered to a man of great talent and unconquerable perseverance has, in many instances, produced, in the long run, most tremendous effects ; and, it appears to me very clear that some beastly insults, offered to Mr. Paine, while he was in the Excise in England, was the real cause of the Revolution in America; for, though the nature of the cause of America was such as I have before described it ; though the principles were firm in the minds...
Página 153 - When we consider, for the feelings of nature cannot be dismissed, the calamities of war and the miseries it inflicts upon the human species, the thousands and tens of thousands, of every age and sex who are rendered wretched by the event, surely there is something in the heart of man that calls upon him to think!
Página 150 - Those who are conversant with Europe would be tempted to believe that even the air of the Atlantic disagrees with the constitution of foreign vices; if they survive the voyage, they either expire on their arrival, or linger away in an incurable consumption. There is a happy something in the climate of America, which disarms them of all their power both of infection and attraction.