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 […]
OR AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE POLITICS TO BE AGITATED AT THE NEXT MEETING OF PARLIAMENT from the 1787 London pamphlet. PREFACE AN expression in the British Parliament respecting the American war, alluding to Julius Caesar having passed the Rubicon, has on several occasions introduced that river as the figurative river
THE AFFAIRS OF THE BANK, AND PAPER-MONEY PREFACE I HERE present the public with a new performance. Some parts of it are more particularly adapted to the State of Pennsylvania, on the present state of its affairs; but there are others which are on a larger scale. The time bestowed on this work has not
Tune-Rule Britannia HAIL great Republic of the world, Which rear’d her empire in the West, Where fam’d Columbus’ flag unfurl’d. Gave tortured Europe scenes of rest: Be thou forever great and free, The land of Love and Liberty! Beneath thy spreading, mantling vine, Beside each flowery grove and spring, And where thy lofty mountains shine,
AND OF THE LIBERTIES THEREOF-TO HIS EXCELLENCY, THE PRESIDENT, AND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES Philip Foner’s introduction: Written by Paine in July, 1783, this memorial urged the national legislature to return to Philadelphia. Congress had left the city in June, after having been threatened by a mutiny of Pennsylvania troops who were discontented over
Six Letters to Rhode-Island from the Providence Gazette, December 21, 28, 1782, January 4, 11, 18, February 1, 1783 To the PRINTER of the PROVIDENCE GAZETTE, SIR, Philadelphia, Nov. 27, 1782. Inclosed I send you a Philadelphia paper of this day’s date, and desire you to insert the piece signed “A Friend to Rhode-Island and
WARRIOR, farewell! eccentrically brave, Above all kings, and yet of gold the slave: In words, a very wit, in deeds less wise, Forever restless, yet could never rise; At least no higher than could meet the ground: If strong the blow-the greater the rebound. Of all men jealous, yet afraid of none, In crowds forever,
PUBLIC GOOD from the original pamphlet at the University of Pittsburgh digital collection. PREFACE THE following pages are on a subject hitherto little understood but highly interesting to the United States. They contain an investigation of the claims of Virginia to the vacant western territory, and of the right of the United States to the
(FIRST LETTER – This letter appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette of June 30, 1779. -Editor.) MESSRS. HALL AND SELLERS Gentlemen, A PIECE of very extraordinary complexion made its appearance in your last paper, under the signature of Americanus, and what is equally as extraordinary, I have not yet met with one advocate in its favour.
To SILAS DEANE, Esq; From Pennsylvania Packet, December 15, 1778. AFTER reading a few lines of your address to the public in the Pennsylvania Packet of December 6th, I can truly say, that concern got the better of curiosity, and I felt an unwillingness to go through it. Mr. Deane must very well know that
A SERIOUS ADDRESS to the PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA, on the present situation of their affairs. from the Pennsylvania Packet, December 1, 5, 10, 12, 1778. Unwilling as I have been to have my attention called from the great object of the Continent, I now find it necessary to pay some regard to the peace and
Candid and Critical Remarks on LETTER I. Signed LUDLOW. See the Journal, No. 1790. from The Pennsylvania Journal, June 4, 1777 EVERY subject for discussion may be treated two several ways, generally or particularly. In a general review exactness is not expected; but when a writer undertakes to examine and lay down the parts of
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