CHAPTER I – THE AUTHOR’S PROFESSION OF FAITH. IT has been my intention, for several years past, to publish my thoughts upon religion; I am well aware of the difficulties that attend the subject, and from that consideration, had reserved it to a more advanced period of life. I intended it to be the last […]
The Age of Reason — Part I Read Post »
To Thomas Jefferson October 20, 1793 DEAR SIR: I wrote you by Captain Dominick who was to sail from Havre about the 20th of this month. This will probably be brought you by Mr. [Joel] Barlow or Col. Oswald. Since my letter by Dominick I am every day more convinced and impressed with the propriety
To Thomas Jefferson October 20, 1793 Read Post »
To Citizen Barrere September 5, 1793 I send you the papers you asked me for. The idea you have to send Commissioners to Congress, and of which you spoke to me yesterday, is excellent, and very necessary at this moment. Mr. Jefferson, formerly Minister of the United States in France, and actually Minister for Foreign
To Citizen Barrere September 5, 1793 Read Post »
The document in French Archives (Etats-Unis, vol. 38, Part II, July, 1793 – October) is dated “Philadelphia, July 28, 1793; 18th year of Independence”. Paine’s name is penciled on the document. So context is in question, as Paine was in Paris at the time of writing. Paine may have received it from America, and it
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From the original letter at the French National Archives. Paris, May 6th 2d year of the Republic Citoyen Danton As you read english I write this letter to you without passing it through the hands of a translator. I am exceedingly disturbed at the distractions, jealousies, discontents and uneasiness that reign among us, and which,
To George Jacques Danton May 6, 1793 Read Post »
From the original letter at the Library of Congress. PARIS,aris April 20th 2d year of the Republic My Dear Friend The gentleman (Dr. Romer) to whom I entrust this letter is an intimate acquaintance of Lavater, but I have not had the opportunity of seeing him, as he had set off for Havre prior to
To Thomas Jefferson April 20, 1793 Read Post »
To Doctor James O’Fallon1 February the 17, 1793 PASSY, NEAR PARIS, DEAR SIR: I had the pleasure of your favor from Kentucky, which came in the French Resident’s dispatches, with which the offers and propositions of General G R Clarke, for an expedition against Louisiana, etc. had arrived, and were received by the Provisionary Executive
To Doctor James O’Fallon February the 17, 1793 Read Post »
Philip Foner’s introduction: Paine refused to support the Girondin proposal calling for a popular referendum to decide the king’s fate. At the same time, however, while voting the king guilty of treason, he refused to vote for the death penalty. He had this address translated and read to the French National Convention on January 19,
Shall Louis XVI be Respited? Read Post »
From the 1793 pamphlet from London reprinting King’s letter and Paine’s response below. DEAR KING, I don’t know any thing, these many years, that surprised and hurt me more than the sentiments you published in the Courtly HERALD, the 12th December, signed John King, Egham Lodge. You have gone back, from all you ever said.
To John King January 3, 1793 Read Post »
TPNHA Editor’s Note TPNHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify thePaine 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 located.
Plan of a Declaration Read Post »
To Citizen Barrere 1793 You mentioned to me that saltpetre was becoming scarce. I communicate to you a project of the late Captain Paul Jones, which, if successfully put in practice, will furnish you with that article. All the English East India ships put into St. Helena, off the coast of Africa, on their return
To Citizen Barrere 1793 Read Post »
Philip Foner’s introduction: This paper appears in the French State Archives, and is endorsed “January 1793. Thomas Payne. Copie.” The date is erroneous, for the reference to the defeat of the Duke of York at Dunkirk indicates that it was written during the late summer or early fall of 1793. The Duke of York set
Observations on the Situation of the Powers Read Post »
