To James Monroe August 15, 1796 Versailles, 28 Thermidor 4 year DEAR SIR: I am spending some days at. the house of a friend at this place with whom I shall make an arrangement to stay some weeks. But I am out of cash and I know no method of supplying myself, but by having […]
To a French Minister August 13, 1796 VERSAILLES, CITIZEN MINISTER: The citizen Robert Smith, a very particular friend of mine, wishes to obtain a passport to go to Hamburg, and I will be obliged to you to do him that favor. Himself and family have lived several years in France, for he likes neither the
This poem was addressed to Mrs. Joel Barlow, the wife of the liberal American poet, Joel Barlow, who was living in Paris in 1796 when these verses were written. Accompanying the poem, Paine sent the following note: “To Mrs. Barlow, on her pleasantly telling the author that, after writing against the superstition of the Scripture
LETTER TO GEORGE WASHINGTON From the original Philadelphia Aurora pamphlet in 1796. DATED PARIS, JULY 30, AS censure is but awkwardly softened by apology, I shall offer to you no apology for this letter. The eventful crisis to which your double politics have conducted the affairs of your country, requires an investigation uncramped by ceremony.
From the 1796 Paris edition. NOTHING, they say, is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying; yet we can always fix a period beyond which man cannot live, and within some moment of which he will die. We are enabled to do this, not by any spirit of prophecy
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For the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser. from the Pennsylvania Packet , March 25, 1786. AS I have always considered the bank as one of the best institutions that could be devised to promote the commerce and agriculture of the country, and recover it from the ruined condition in which the war had left both
AGRARIAN JUSTICE (from the Bache edition, Philadelphia, 1796, with the French introduction of 1796 added) AUTHOR’S INSCRIPTION To the Legislature and the Executive Directory of the French Republic: The plan contained in this work is not adapted for any particular country alone: the principle on which it is based is general. But as the rights
