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BOOK REVIEW: Beyond The Call Of Duty, Memoirs Of An Excise Man

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1998 Number 4 Volume 3

If pressed to identify any feature giving the book a degree of importance which removes it from simply being a recreational read, I would point to material in it which social historians will find of great value, although this is expressed in an entertaining  manner rather than in terms of what one would expect in a scholarly treatise.

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BOOK REVIEW: Thomas Paine: The Case Of The King Of England And His Officers Of Excise

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1998 Number 4 Volume 3

This short essay is unquestionably a major contribution to Paine studies, though likely on the controversial side in that it casts Paine in a role few of his admirers would have thought possible, for it is the belief of the author that Paine was ‘an undercover agent’ for George III.

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George Julian Harney taken in 1880.

BOOK REVIEW: Deptford’s Red Republican, George Julian Harney

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1998 Number 1 Volume 4

This pamphlet makes a stimulating and informative read. Harney is known to have held Paine’s memory in high regard and may even have been one of the  Chartists who influenced the movement to reprint and publish their own edition of Rights of Man.

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Paine's testing the explosive power of gunpowder harnessed to an engine designed to drive paddles on a boat. This 'internal combustion engine' was not a success.

Thomas Paine’s Interest In Matters Scientific

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1997 Number 3 Volume 3

Although Thomas Paine is best known for his role as a revolutionary, political and social reformer and biblical critic, like many of his circle of friends and acquaintances he had a passionate interest in science, or, as it was then termed, natural philosophy.

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Thomas Paine: His Decision To Publish The Age Of Reason

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1996 Number 1 Volume 3

Thomas Paine was not by nature a revolutionary; he was a reformer. His early attitude towards both government and religion was benign, and when his early history is finally presented to the public it will at last become apparent that he was originally a conformist.

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Edmund Burke portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds - link

BOOK REVIEW: Debate Aborted. Burke, Priestley. Paine And The Revolution In France

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1996 Number 1 Volume 3

The author acknowledges Burke to have been a ‘great man’ but one who was ‘scarcely rational about human rights’, who resorts to sneering when he fails to have better of an argument. ‘This man’ concludes the author, ‘must have had a large mental block’.

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