Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
In a letter of Lafayette to Washington ("Paris, 12 Jan., 1790") he writes: "_Common Sense_ is writing for you a brochure where you will see a part of my adventures." It thus appears that the narrative embodied in the reply to Burke ("Rights of Man," Part I.), dedicated to Wash...
Paine in effigy throughout the country, and to harry the Nonconformists. Dr. Priestley's house was gutted. Mr. Fox (December 14, 1792) reminded the House of Commons that all the...
4. Chapter 4Citizens: When I first arrived amongst you as Minister from the United States of America I was given to understand that the liberation of Thomas Paine would take place without a...
5. Chapter 5Taking it then for granted that no person ought to be in a worse condition when born under what is called a state of civilization, than he would have been had he been born in a...
3. Chapter 3applied to me to claim him as a citizen of the United States. Here (I believe) are the facts relating to him. He was born in England. Having afterwards become a citizen of the U...
11. Chapter 11This letter was printed in _The True American_, Trenton, New Jersey, soon after Paine's return to his old home at Bordenton. It is here printed from the original manuscript, for...
10. Chapter 10Religion and War is the cry of the Federalists; Morality and Peace the voice of Republicans. The union of Morality and Peace is congenial; but that of Religion and War is a para...
7. Chapter 7Since the establishment of Independence, no period has arrived that so decidedly proves the excellence of the representative system of government, and its superiority over every...
1. Chapter 1In a letter of Lafayette to Washington ("Paris, 12 Jan., 1790") he writes: "_Common Sense_ is writing for you a brochure where you will see a part of my adventures." It thus app...
6. Chapter 6As the affairs of the country to which I am returned are of more importance to the world, and to me, than of that I have lately left, (for it is through the new world the old mu...
8. Chapter 8As Congress is on the point of meeting, the public papers will necessarily be occupied with the debates of the ensuing session, and as, in consequence of my long absence from Am...
9. Chapter 91 The National Intelligencer, Feb., 1803. In the Tarions collections of these Letters there appears at this point a correspondence between Paine and Samuel Adams of Boston, but...