The Last CRISIS, No. XIII. from the Pennsylvania Packet, April 19, 1783 “THE times that tried mens souls,” (1) are over — and the greatest and compleatest revolution the world ever knew is gloriously and happily accomplished. But to pass from the extremes of danger to safety — from the tumult of war to the […]
A LETTER TO THE ABBE RAYNAL on the Affairs of North-America. In which The Mistakes in the Abbe’s Account of the REVOLUTION IN AMERICA are Corrected and Cleared Up. By Thomas Paine, M.A. of the University of Pennsylvania, and Author of a Tract “COMMON SENSE.” M.DCC.LXXXII. INTRODUCTION A London translation of an original work in
The American Crisis XII from the Pennsylvania Gazette, October 30, 1782. Original title below, “Crisis XII” title added in later collections. TO THE EARL OF SHELBURNE. A speech which has been printed in several of the British and New-York newspapers, as coming from your Lordship, in answer to one from the Duke of Richmond of
A Supernumerary Crisis from the Pennsylvania Packet, June 4, 1782 TO SIR GUY CARLETON It is the nature of compassion to associate with misfortune; and I address this to you in behalf even of an enemy, a captain in the British service, now on his way to the Head-quarters of the American army, and unfortunately
Crisis XI from the Pennsylvania Gazette, May 22, 1782 ON THE PRESENT STATE OF NEWS SINCE the arrival of two, if not three packets, in quick succession, at New-York, from England, a variety of unconnected news has circulated through the country, and afforded as great a variety of speculation. That something is the matter in
Crisis X — On the King of England’s Speech, and On Financing the War from the Pennsylvania Packet, February 19, 28, and March 7 ON THE KING OF ENGLAND’S SPEECH OF all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind, there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity. It reaches all mankind, and in matters
The Crisis Extraordinary. from the original pamphlet, at Evans Early American Imprint Collection, University of Michigan. ON THE SUBJECT OF TAXATION IT IS impossible to sit down and think seriously on the affairs of America, but the original principles upon which she resisted, and the glow and ardor which they inspired, will occur like the
THE CRISIS, No. IX. from the Pennsylvania Packet, June 13, 1780. HAD America pursued her advantages with half the spirit that she resisted her misfortunes, she would, before now, have been a conquering and a peaceful people; but lulled in the lap of soft tranquillity, she rested on her hopes, and adversity only has convulsed
THE CRISIS. No. VIII. from the Pennsylvania Packet, February 26, 1780. Addressed to the People of ENGLAND, by the Author of COMMON SENSE. “TRUSTING, (says the king of England in his speech of November last) in the Divine Providence, and in the justice of my cause, I am firmly resolved to prosecute the war with
The Crisis. No. VII. from the Pennsylvania Packet, November 12, 1778 To the PEOPLE of ENGLAND THERE are stages in the business of serious life in which to amuse is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and it is of little consequence, in the conclusion, whether men deceive themselves, or submit, by a kind
The CRISIS. No. VI. From the Pennsylvania Packet, October 22, 1778. To the Earl of CARLISLE, General CLINTON, and WILLIAM EDEN, Esq; British Commissioners, at New-York. THERE is a dignity in the warm passions of a whig, which is never to be found in the cold malice of a tory. In the one nature is
The American Crisis. Number V. From the original pamphlet of March 23, 1778. TO General Sir WILLIAM HOWE. TO argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose Philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavouring to convert an Atheist by
