TPUK 2009 Number 4 Volume 9

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BOOK REVIEW: Thomas Paine: In Search Of The Common Good

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 2009 Number 4 Volume 9

I will make no attempt to comment on any of the contributions, to fully appreciate them, it is sufficient to say they contain much that is of value and it’s good that they have been now been put into print thanks to Dr. Chumbley, a TPS member, who transcribed them. 

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Plaque marking the building in Alford, UK where Paine worked as an excise officer from 1764 to 1765 at customs office on this site – Photo by TonyMo22

Paine At The Crossroads, 1763-1768 

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 2009 Number 4 Volume 9

Paine’s dismissal from his excise appointment at Afford left him with a shattered career, and without immediate prospects. His regular income had slipped from his grasp, but despite his swift change of fortune and the suddenness of his dismissal, he was probably quite well placed.

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Painting by J. Raffield of the east view of the cast iron bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland in 1796 - link

Thomas Paine and the Iron Bridge of Diplomacy 

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 2009 Number 4 Volume 9

Thomas Paine’s bridge of diplomacy, both as a practical bridge and as a symbolic bridge between nations and political eras, centred on his proposal for a single span iron bridge braced by strong abutments cast from nature in the design of a spider’s web.

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