TPNHA Editor’s Note TPNHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify the Paine Canon. We have attempted to mark those works that have come into question and are doubtful that they are the work of Paine. The Canon is expanding as new works and correspondence not previously in collected writings of Paine are […]
Retreat across the Delaware Read Post »
A Dialogue between the Ghost of Montgomery and an American Delegate, in a Wood near Philadelphia. An homage to A Dialogue between Gen. Wolfe and Gen. Gage six months before, this is most likely Samuel Adams, who may have authored the first as it was set in Boston. Paine registers, but not as high as
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TPNHA Editor’s Note TPNHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify the Paine Canon. We have attempted to mark those works that have come into question and are doubtful that they are the work of Paine. The Canon is expanding as new works and correspondence not previously in collected writings of Paine are
TPNHA Editor’s Note TPNHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify the Paine Canon. We have attempted to mark those works that have come into question and are doubtful that they are the work of Paine. The Canon is expanding as new works and correspondence not previously in collected writings of Paine are
An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex Read Post »
THE OLD BACHELOR IV Reflections on unhappy Marriages from the Pennsylvania Magazine, June, 1775 THOUGH ’tis confessed on all hands that the weal or woe of life depends on no one circumstance so critical as Matrimony; yet how few seem to be influenced by this universal acknowledgement, or act with a caution becoming the danger!
Reflections on Unhappy Marriages Read Post »
TPNHA Editor’s Note TPNHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify the Paine Canon. We have attempted to mark those works that have come into question and are doubtful that they are the work of Paine. The Canon is expanding as new works and correspondence not previously in collected writings of Paine are
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TPNHA Editor’s Note TPNHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify the Paine Canon. We have attempted to mark those works that have come into question and are doubtful that they are the work of Paine. The Canon is expanding as new works and correspondence not previously in collected writings of Paine are
TPNHA Editor’s Note TPNHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify the Paine Canon. We have attempted to mark those works that have come into question and are doubtful that they are the work of Paine. The Canon is expanding as new works and correspondence not previously in collected writings of Paine are
The Dream Interpreted Read Post »
TPNHA Editor’s Note TPNHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify the Paine Canon. We have attempted to mark those works that have come into question and are doubtful that they are the work of Paine. The Canon is expanding as new works and correspondence not previously in collected writings of Paine are
Published in the Pennsylvania Journal on March 8, 1775, this essay was put into the Paine corpus by Moncure Conway in 1894. Other than Paine’s opposition to slavery, there is no basis to consider this Paine’s work other than Benjamin Rush’s confused letter in 1809 referring to an anti-slavery article by Paine. There are several
African Slavery in America Read Post »
CONTENT GOES Foner says this essay shows Paine’s interest in India, “together with ‘A Serious Thought’”. But Paine did not write A Serious Thought either. This is a personal study of the tragedy of Clive, Paine uses Clive as an object of ridicule of British colonialism, but the politics is not brought up in this
Reflections on the Life and Death of Lord Clive Read Post »
Probably written by Philip Freneau who wrote many articles in 1775, but Hopkinson is strong as well. Testing yeilds: The writing is not in the style that Paine ever used elsewhere, using references to the “happy wildness”, “the two terrestrial Charons, who ferried me over the Schuykill”, is not Paine; and especially the reference to
New Anecdotes of Alexander the Great Read Post »
