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The Will of Thomas Paine

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT, TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, OR MAY CONCERN, SEND GREETING : KNOW YE, That the annexed is a true copy of the will of THOMAS PAINE, deceased, as recorded in the office of the surrogate, in […]

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To the People of New York

from the Public Advertiser (New York), August 18, 1807. THE election for Charter Officers last year was carried by the federal and quid trick of fortifications, and now the people are to be amused and duped to a new obstructions. The only eligible mode of obstruction is that proposed by Franklin for the Delaware in

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A Challenge to the Federalists

A challenge to the Federalists to declare their principles. from the American Citizen, October 17, 1806. The old names of Whig and Tory have given place to the later names of Republicans and Federalists; by contraction Feds. The word republican contains some meaning though not very positive, except that it is the opposite of monarchy;

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Forgetfulness

FROM THE CASTLE IN THE AIR TO THE LITTLE CORNER OF THE WORLD MEMORY, like a beauty that is always present to hear itself flattered, is flattered by everyone. But the absent and silent goddess, Forgetfulness, has no votaries, and is never thought of; yet we owe her much. She is the goddess of ease,

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Specification of Thomas Paine

A.D. 1788. No. 1667. CONSTRUCTING ARCHES, VAULTED ROOFS, AND CEILINGS TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS PAINE, send greeting. WHEREAS, His Most Excellent Majesty King George III, by his letters patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the twenty-sixth day of August, in the twenty-eighth year of his

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The Magazine in America

This essay was the first which Paine wrote for the Pennsylvania Magazine and appeared in the January 24, 1775 issue.] In a country whose reigning character is the love of science, it is somewhat strange that the channels of communication should continue so narrow and limited. The weekly papers are at present the only vehicles

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