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Junius Unmasked Or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence

"The man who fairly and completely answers this argument, shall have my thanks and my applause.... Grateful as I am to the good Being whose bounty has imparted to me this reasoning intellect, whatever it is, I hold myself proportionably indebted to him from whose enlightened u...

Chapters

9. PART II.

It is with painful feelings I now call your attention to the famous document which sets forth the political creed of the United States. More than once my pen has refused to set...

3. PART I.

The literary work which survives a century has uncommon merit. Time has set the seal of approval upon it. It has passed its probation and entered the ages. A century has just cl...

6. part ii, Preface.

The above characteristic is quite peculiar. I do not remember of ever seeing the like of it in any other writer, and as there is a perfect parallel here, the fact that it stands...

8. Letter 54: "These candid critics never remember any thing he says in

honor of our holy religion, though it is true that one of his leading arguments is made to rest 'upon the internal evidence which the purest of all religions carries with it.' I...

4. part ii., chap. i.

"But neither should I think the most exalted faculties of the human mind a gift worthy of the Divinity, nor any assistance in the improvement of them a subject of gratitude to m...

10. Letter 44, he says of Mr. Wedderburne: "I speak tenderly of this

gentleman, for when treachery is in question, I think we should make allowances for a Scotchman." He speaks of the Scotch "cunning," "treachery," and "fawning sycophancy," of "t...

7. part I am fully satisfied that what I am now doing with an endeavor to

conciliate mankind, to render their condition happy, to unite nations that have hitherto been enemies, and to extirpate the horrid practice of war, and break the chains of slave...

5. Part ii.

"Although the king should continue to support his present system of government, the period is not very distant, at which you will have the means of redress in your own power; it...

2. PART II.

"The man who fairly and completely answers this argument, shall have my thanks and my applause.... Grateful as I am to the good Being whose bounty has imparted to me this reason...

1. PART I. JUNIUS UNMASKED