Essays

To the Citizens of Pennsylvania on the Proposal for Calling a Convention

American Politics and Government

From the original pamphlet of 1805. To the Citizens of Pennsylvania on the Proposal for Calling a Convention I resided in the capital of your State (Philadelphia) in the “time that tried men’s souls,” and all my political writings, during the Revolutionary War, were written in that city, it seems natural for me to look

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Origin of Freemasonry

Religion

from the 1810 first printing, submitted by Mde. Bonneville for printing, who probably edited the manuscript heavily to soften its anti-Catholic sentiments. IT is always understood that Free-Masons have a secret which they carefully conceal; but from every thing that can be collected from their own accounts of Masonry their real secret is no other

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Remarks on Gouverneur Morris’s Funeral Oration on General Hamilton

American Politics and Government

From the Aurora in Philadelphia of August 7, 1804: REMARKS *On Governeur Morrisis funeral oration on general Hamilton. The quotations from the oration are taken from Cheetham’s N. York country paper, the Watch-Tower, of July 18. AS Governeur Morris is fond of criticizing others, he becomes a fair object for criticism himself. Give and take

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Prospect Papers

Religion

The articles below are from The Prospect, a magazine started by Elihu Palmer, and to which Paine contributed 13 essays. Four essays in this collection are deattributed works: “Of Cain and Abel” (Palmer is the author), “Of the Old and New Testaments” (author unknown), “To the Members of the Society”(unknown), and “On the Sabbath Day

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Lines, Extempore

Poetry

BY THOMAS PAINE, JULY, 1803. QUICK as the lightning’s vivid flash The poet’s eye o’er Europe rolls; Sees battles rage, hears tempests crash, And dims at horror’s threatening scowls. Mark ambition’s ruthless king, With crimsoned banners scathe the globe; While trailing after conquest’s wing, Man’s festering wounds his demons probe. Palled with streams of reeking

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