To John Hall November 25, 1791 LONDON, MY OLD FRIEND: I am very happy to see a letter from you, and to hear that our Friends on the other side of the water are well. The Bridge has been put up, but being on wood butments they yielded, and it is now taken down. The […]
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THOUGHTS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MINT IN THE UNITED STATES. By THOMAS PAINE. THE price of machinery and the expence of labor are reserved to the conclusion. I proceed therefore to consider the Metals and the means of procuring them. I begin with Copper. — This Metal is of too little value and of
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress London Novr 2, 1791 Dear Sir I received your favour conveying a letter from Mr. Jefferson and the ans. to Publicola for which I thank you. I had John Adams in my mind when I wrote the pamphlet and it has hit as I expected. M.
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ADDRESS AND DECLARATION AT A SELECT MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF UNIVERSAL PEACE AND LIBERTY, HELD AT THE THATCHED HOUSE TAVERN, ST. JAMES’ STREET, AUGUST 20, 1791, THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS AND DECLARATION TO OUR FELLOW CITIZENS WAS AGREED ON AND ORDERED TO BE PUBLISHED Philip Foner’s introduction: Paine returned to England on July 13, 1791.
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress. London July 21st – 1791 Dear Sir I received your favour of last Augt – by Col. Humphries since which I have not written to or heard from you. I mention this that you may know no letters have miscarried. I took the liberty of addressing
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To Abbe Sieyes July 8, 1791 Philip Foner’s introduction: In the same month, July, 1791, in which he wrote “A Republican Manifesto,” Paine published in the Republican, which he and Condorcet had founded, an attack on the monarchy. Abbe Sieyes, the spokesman of the French middle classes, who had framed a constitution in which the
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To Messiurs Condorcet, Bonneville, and Lanthenas1 June, 1791. PARIS, GENTLEMEN : I have been informed by M. Duchatelet that it is the purpose of certain persons to begin the publication of a work entitled Le Republicain. Being the citizen of a land that recognizes no majesty but that of the people, no government except that
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As the publication of this work has been delayed beyond the time intended, I think it not improper, all circumstances considered, to state the causes that have occasioned delay. The reader will probably observe, that some parts in the plan contained in this work for reducing the taxes, and certain parts in Mr. Pitt’s speech
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From the six-pence edition 1792 Being An Answer To Mr. Burke’s Attack On The French Revolution. To George Washington, President of the United States of America. SIR, I present you a small Treatise in defence of those Principles of Freedom which your exemplary Virtue hath so eminently contributed to establish. — That the Rights of
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