One of the nicest little parlor entertainments of this week, was the celebration of the 147th anniversary of the birthday of Thomas Paine, at the residence of Mr. Jacob Martin.
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Thomas Paine, the infidel writer, spent several months at Mystic with his friend Nathan Haley. It was between 1802 and 1809.
The relations which Thomas Paine held to the French Revolution of 1789 do not appear to have ever been very widely treated upon in all that has been written.
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Professor Felix Adler lectured recently before the New York Society of Ethical Culture on the influence and of the development of Thomas Paine’s religious ideas.
Col. Ingersoll’s glowing tribute to the memory of Thomas Paine will be differently viewed by its readers according to their religious biases.
This Chicago Daily Tribune article is a report of a lecture by Robert G. Ingersoll in Chicago commemorating Paine’s birthday on January 30, 1880.
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Last evening at Talmadge Hall the birthday of Thomas Paine was celebrated under the auspices of the Liberal League.
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Col. Robert G. Ingersoll delivered another lecture last night in Chickering Hall, his subject being Thomas Paine, his life and his work.
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Col. Ingersoll’s Reply To The New York Observer—That Paper Now Admits That Paine Did Not Recant Or Die Full Of Remorse—The Story About His Father’s Severity Denied.
Mr. Robert G. Ingersoll has published, in a letter to the editor of The New-York Observer, a statement of the evidence which, in his opinion, shows that Thomas Paine did not die a drunken pauper in agony and fear.
Ten of thousands of copies of both pamphlets were sold. Joseph Gales printed and sold vast numbers of Paine’s work.
A meeting was held last evening in Turner’s Hall, on North Clark street, for the purpose of observing the one hundred and thirty-first anniversary of the birthday of Thomas Paine.
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