TO THE PEOPLE from Pennsylvania Packet, March 18, 1777. THERE are particular periods both in public and domestic life, in which, the excellence of wisdom consists in a due government of the temper: Without this, zeal degenerates into rage, and affection into bitterness. And so necessary is this qualification, in every stage of life, that […]
The AMERICAN CRISIS. No. II. By the Author of COMMON SENSE. From the Pennsylvania Packet, January 22, February 4, 11, 18, 1777 To LORD HOWE. "What's in the name of lord, that I should fear To bring my grievance to the public ear?" CHURCHILL. UNIVERSAL empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are
The AMERICAN CRISIS. No. I from the Pennsylvania Packet, December 27, 1776 and January 4, 1777 THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man
To Anonymous August 16, 1776 Amboy, DEAR SIR: There is a report of a French fleet gone at the River St. Lawrence, on which I remark, that should the French possess themselves of Canada, they will claim according to the extension made by the British Crown. Query. Ought not the Congress to make a reclaim
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FOUR LETTERS ON INteresting Subjects from the original pamphlet in July 1776, Philadelphia. To the Public. The rapid return which Politics is taken within the course of a few days, makes it almost impossible for the Press to keep pace therewith; which will account for some few remarks in the first and second of the
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To CATO from the Pennsylvania Evening Post, April 30, 1776 WHEREAS Cato, in his eighth letter, and some of his partizans since, have made free with the Forester as having neither "character nor connexion." To which I answer, first, "better to have none than bad ones." Secondly, that the person supposed by some, and known
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Forester Letter I from the Pennsylvania Journal April 3, 1776. To CATO TO be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right. Only let the error be disinterested — let it wear not the mask, but the mark of principle, and 'tis pardonable. It is on this large and liberal ground, that we
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EPISTLE TO THE QUAKERS, from Bradford's 3rd edition of Common Sense To the Representatives of the Religious Society of the People called Quakers, or to so many of them as were concerned in publishing the late piece, entitled "THE ANCIENT TESTIMONY AND PRINCIPLES of the People called QUAKERS renewed, with Respect to the KING AND
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THE BRADFORD EDITION, February 14, 1776 Man knows no Master save creating Heaven Or those whom choice and common good ordain. – Thomson. INTRODUCTION Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial
Foner introduction: This stirring song was printed in the Pennsylvania Evening Post of September 16, 1775. The last stanza was a definite forecast of Common Sense inasmuch as it openly blamed the king as well as Parliament for the oppressive measures imposed upon the American people. Printed in the Pennsylvania Magazine, July, 1775. A SONG,
