Author: Thomas PainePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Invites the unknown recipient to inspect a new iron bridge he designed. We have erected our Experiment Rib and Struck the Center. With engraving.
Letter Written by Thomas Paine about a New Iron Bridge, 1 May 1789
Author: Thomas PainePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Invites the unknown recipient to inspect a new iron bridge he designed. We have erected our Experiment Rib and Struck the Center. With engraving.
The Writings of Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason (1794-1796) (Complete)
Author: Thomas PainePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465572813
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
Book Description
THOMAS PAINE, in his Will, speaks of this work as The American Crisis, remembering perhaps that a number of political pamphlets had appeared in London, 1775-1776, under general title of "The Crisis." By the blunder of an early English publisher of Paine's writings, one essay in the London "Crisis" was attributed to Paine, and the error has continued to cause confusion. This publisher was D. I. Eaton, who printed as the first number of Paine's "Crisis" an essay taken from the London publication. But his prefatory note says: "Since the printing of this book, the publisher is informed that No. 1, or first Crisis in this publication, is not one of the thirteen which Paine wrote, but a letter previous to them." Unfortunately this correction is sufficiently equivocal to leave on some minds the notion that Paine did write the letter in question, albeit not as a number of his "Crisis "; especially as Eaton's editor unwarrantably appended the signature "C. S.," suggesting "Common Sense." There are, however, no such letters in the London essay, which is signed "Casca." It was published August, 1775, in the form of a letter to General Gage, in answer to his Proclamation concerning the affair at Lexington. It was certainly not written by Paine. It apologizes for the Americans for having, on April 19, at Lexington, made "an attack upon the King's troops from behind walls and lurking holes." The writer asks: "Have not the Americans been driven to this frenzy? Is it not common for an enemy to take every advantage?" Paine, who was in America when the affair occurred at Lexington, would have promptly denounced Gage's story as a falsehood, but the facts known to every one in America were as yet not before the London writer. The English "Crisis" bears evidence throughout of having been written in London. It derived nothing from Paine, and he derived nothing from it, unless its title, and this is too obvious for its origin to require discussion. I have no doubt, however, that the title was suggested by the English publication, because Paine has followed its scheme in introducing a "Crisis Extraordinary." His work consists of thirteen numbers, and, in addition to these, a "Crisis Extraordinary" and a "Supernumerary Crisis." In some modern collections all of these have been serially numbered, and a brief newspaper article added, making sixteen numbers. But Paine, in his Will, speaks of the number as thirteen, wishing perhaps, in his characteristic way, to adhere to the number of the American Colonies, as he did in the thirteen ribs of his iron bridge. His enumeration is therefore followed in the present volume, and the numbers printed successively, although other writings intervened.
Rights of Man
Author: Thomas PainePublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Letter from Thomas Paine, Author of The Rights of Man, Common Sense, &c. &c. to the Honourable Mr Secretary Dundas
Author: Thomas PainePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Life of Thomas Paine, by W.M. Van der Weyde
Author: Thomas PainePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Paine's Four Letters. Letters on Government: including both his letters to Mr. Dundas; with two letters to Lord Onslow and two from Paris. To which are prefixed anecdotes of his life
Author: Thomas PainePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The Life and Works of Thomas Paine
Author: Thomas PainePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Signed in ms. in vol. 1: Van der Weyde. v. 1. Life of Thomas Paine, by W.M. Van der Weyde.--v. 2. Early essays. Common sense. The American crisis, I-IV.--v. 3. The American crisis, V-XIII. Patriotic papers.--v. 4. Political pamphlets.--v. 5. Open letters. Dissertations.--v. 6. Rights of man.--v. 7. Rights of man, concluded. Miscellaneous essays.--v. 8. The age of reason.--v. 9. Theological discussions.--v. 10. Miscellany. Songs and rhymes. Index.
The Works, of Thomas Paine,
Author: Thomas PainePublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation
Author: Thomas PainePublisher:
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Category : Freedom of speech
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Works of Thomas Paine: Common sense. The crisis. Public good. Letter addressed to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper-money. Miscellaneous pieces, in prose and verse; published in the Pennsylvania magazine, in the year 1775
Author: Thomas PainePublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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