For the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser. from the Pennsylvania Packet , March 25, 1786. AS I have always considered the bank as one of the best institutions that could be devised to promote the commerce and agriculture of the country, and recover it from the ruined condition in which the war had left both […]
AGRARIAN JUSTICE (from the Bache edition, Philadelphia, 1796, with the French introduction of 1796 added) AUTHOR’S INSCRIPTION To the Legislature and the Executive Directory of the French Republic: The plan contained in this work is not adapted for any particular country alone: the principle on which it is based is general. But as the rights
To Daniel Isaacs Eaton December 4, 1795 PARIS, SIR: I have seen advertised in the London papers the second Edition of the Age of Reason printed, the advertisement says, from the Author s Manuscript, and entered at Stationers Hall. I have never sent any manuscript to any person. It is therefore a forgery to say
To Gilbert Wakefield, A.B. November 19, 1795 PARIS, DEAR SIR: When you prudently chose, like a starved apothecary, to offer your eighteen penny antidote to those who had taken my two-and-sixpenny Bible-purge, you forgot that although my dose was rather of the roughest, it might not be the less wholesome for possessing that drastic quality;
PREFACE I HAVE mentioned in the former part of The Age of Reason that it had long been my intention to publish my thoughts upon Religion; but that I had originally reserved it to a later period in life, intending it to be the last work I should undertake. The circumstances, however, which existed in
To James Madison September 24, 1795 PARIS, SIR: I have borrowed two hundred and fifty French Crowns of Mr. Monroe at Paris and agreeably to my arrangement with him the money is to be repaid into your hands in America and I have given an order to Mr. Benj[ami]n Franklin Bache to pay that sum
To Benjamin Franklin Bache August 5, 1795 PARIS, SIR: I have lately published a small tract entitled Dissertations upon first Principles of Government. As the press was set in English as well as in French I have struck off an additional quantity. You will receive a package containing 5000 about three hundred of which are
SPEECH IN THE FRENCH NATIONAL CONVENTION, JULY 7, 1795 Philip Foner’s introduction: On the 19th of Messidor of the year III, Paine had read from the tribune in the French National Convention the translation of this speech, which he had written in English, pointing sharply to the contradictions between the principles of 1789 and the
THERE is no subject more interesting to every man than the subject of government. His security, be he rich or poor, and, in a great measure, his prosperity, are connected therewith; it is therefore his interest as well as his duty, to make himself acquainted with its principles, and what the practise ought to be.
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From the original letter at the New York Public Library. Paris March 6th 1795 My Dear Friend Mr. Mozard who is appointed Consul will present you this letter. He is spoken of here as a good sort of man and I can have no doubt that you will find him the same at Boston. When
To M. Tallyrand [September 1797] Rue theatre francais No. 4, CITIZEN MINISTER: I promised you some observations on the state of things between France and America. I divide the case into two parts. First, with respect to some method that shall effectually put an end to all interruptions of the American commerce. Secondly, with respect
FROM THE CASTLE IN THE AIR TO THE LITTLE CORNER OF THE WORLD* THE God that Moses writes about Is one that I refuse, He for his chosen People took The disobedient Jews. Their country often he laid waste, Their little ones he slew; But I have shown a better taste In chusing Y, O,
