A ESSAY on Dream. from the 1807 book Examinaton of the passages in the Hew Testament, printed by author in New York. The paragraphs edited from the 1803 Paris version have been added at the end. AS a great deal is said in the New Testament about dreams, it is first necessary to explain the […]
From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Paris March 17, 1802 Dear Sir I wrote to you while Mr. Dawson was here that I would wait the arrival of the Trysie that was to bring Mr. Livingston, and return by it to America, in preference to the Maryland which you offered me, but
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To Elihu Palmer February 21, 1802, since the Fable of Christ. PARIS, DEAR FRIEND: I received, by Mr. Livingston, the letter you wrote me, and the excellent work you have published.1 I see you have thought deeply on the subject, and expressed your thoughts in a strong and clear style. The hinting and intimating manner
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Dear Sir The ratification of the treaty at last gives me another opportunity of writing to you. The coalition of the North has vanished almost to nothing. There is no certain news from Egypt either in France or England. Admiral Gantheame is returned without being able
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Paris June 25 1801 Dear Sir I write this merely to say there is nothing new to inform you of. Mr. Dawson whom I saw this morning when I gave him my letter on mechanics for you, tells me that the treaty is not ratified, and
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From the original document in the letter to Thomas Jefferson at the Library of Congress. As the limit of the mechanical powers, properly so called, is fixed in nature no addition or improvement otherwise than in the application of them, can be made. To obtain a still greater quantity of power we must have recourse
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Paris June 9th 1801 19 prairial year 9 Dear Sir Your very friendly letter by Mr. Dawson gave me the real sensation of happy satisfaction, and what served to encrease it was that he brought it to me himself before I knew of his arrival –
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A DISCOURSE AT THE SOCIETY OF THEOPHILANTHROPISTS, PARIS Philip Foner’s introduction: One aim Paine had in mind in writing his Age of Reason was to recall the French people to a basic belief in the deity and thereby to overcome the influence of atheism. After the publication of his great work, Paine turned his attention
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To Mrs. Robert Smyth WHAT IS LOVE? IT IS that delightsome transport we can feel Which painters cannot paint, nor words reveal, Nor any art we know of can conceal. Canst thou describe the sunbeams to the blind, Or make him feel a shadow with his mind? So neither can we by description show This
From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Dear Sir I enclose you a piece to serve as an introduction to two other pieces which you will receive by the same Conveyance. I observe the Consul Le Brun at the entertainment given to the American envoys gave for his toast. “À l’Union de l’Amérique
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Dear Sir I understand there is an Article in the Treaty to the following purport, that the duties payable upon Articles brought from America into france shall not go to the revenue, but shall be appropriated as a fund to pay such of the condemned Cargoes
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress. In the present Crisis of Politics a question naturally suggests itself, which is, Whether in a treaty of Peace with Austria, any measures should be taken, on the part of France, towards a Peace with England? The answer to this question, in all its cases, is
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