To Daniel Isaacs Eaton December 4, 1795 PARIS, SIR: I have seen advertised in the London papers the second Edition of the Age of Reason printed, the advertisement says, from the Author s Manuscript, and entered at Stationers Hall. I have never sent any manuscript to any person. It is therefore a forgery to say […]
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To Gilbert Wakefield, A.B. November 19, 1795 PARIS, DEAR SIR: When you prudently chose, like a starved apothecary, to offer your eighteen penny antidote to those who had taken my two-and-sixpenny Bible-purge, you forgot that although my dose was rather of the roughest, it might not be the less wholesome for possessing that drastic quality;
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The Age Of Reason – Part II PREFACE I HAVE mentioned in the former part of The Age of Reason that it had long been my intention to publish my thoughts upon Religion; but that I had originally reserved it to a later period in life, intending it to be the last work I should
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To James Madison September 24, 1795 PARIS, SIR: I have borrowed two hundred and fifty French Crowns of Mr. Monroe at Paris and agreeably to my arrangement with him the money is to be repaid into your hands in America and I have given an order to Mr. Benj[ami]n Franklin Bache to pay that sum
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To Benjamin Franklin Bache August 5, 1795 PARIS, SIR: I have lately published a small tract entitled Dissertations upon first Principles of Government. As the press was set in English as well as in French I have struck off an additional quantity. You will receive a package containing 5000 about three hundred of which are
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SPEECH IN THE FRENCH NATIONAL CONVENTION, JULY 7, 1795 Philip Foner’s introduction: On the 19th of Messidor of the year III, Paine had read from the tribune in the French National Convention the translation of this speech, which he had written in English, pointing sharply to the contradictions between the principles of 1789 and the
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Somehow the author knew the contents of Jay’s Treaty months before its release. Paine was just out of prison and ill. The two people in the American government close to Paine may have had access to that information, Barlow and Monroe, may have supplied him with it, but testing shows Paine was not the author.
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DISSERTATION ON FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT THERE is no subject more interesting to every man than the subject of government. His security, be he rich or poor, and, in a great measure, his prosperity, are connected therewith; it is therefore his interest as well as his duty, to make himself acquainted with its principles, and
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From the original letter at the New York Public Library. Paris March 6th 1795 My Dear Friend Mr. Mozard who is appointed Consul will present you this letter. He is spoken of here as a good sort of man and I can have no doubt that you will find him the same at Boston. When
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To James Monroe [1795] DEAR SIR: I thank you for your kindness. I have desired Mr. Gilston to enquire if there is room at the Hotel where Mr. Barlow lodges. I will be obliged to you to remind him of it in case he has not yet done it. The plan I had of going
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