Rivers had issued several anonymous pamphlets, including a sermon on ‘The Gospel a Perfect Law of Liberty’ and a sermon against Popery. He was a frequent contributor to the World newspaper and the Sunday Recorder To this day, other details of his life remain an unsolved mystery.
David Rivers’ Little – Known Memoir Of Thomas Paine Read Post »
In compiling a bibliography of writings on Paine, one is confronted with the problem of not where to begin, but where to stop. The words of John Adams remain true: “I know not whether any Man in the World has more influence on its inhabitants or affairs…than Tom Paine.”
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On 6 March, 1812, Daniel Isaac Eaton, the so-called “infidel bookseller”, stood before the Court of King’s Bench charged with publishing what was known as the third part of Thomas Paine’s, The Age of Reason – a work the Attorney-General saw as “a libel”.
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