Essays
This is a list of Thomas Paine essays. Keep in mind you can find Common Sense and other important works by Paine in our Major Works section. You can read any of the works below by clicking on the titles. Enjoy!
1772
1775
Liberty Tree
Farmer Short’s Dog Porter: A Tale
An Account of the Burning of Bachelors’ Hall
The Death of General Wolfe
The Magazine in America
The Snowdrop and the Critic
1776
The Forester’s Letters
Epistle to Quakers
1777
Candid and Critical Remarks on a Letter Signed Ludlow
To the People
1778
The Affair of Silas Deane
A Serious Address To The People Of Pennsylvania On The Present Situation Of Their Affairs
1779
Peace and the Newfoundland Fisheries
1780
1782
Six Letters to Rhode Island
Epitaph on General Charles Lee
1783
Hail Great Republic!
The Address of the Citizens of Philadelphia
1786
1787
1788
1791
Thoughts on the Establishment of a Mint in the United States
Address and Declaration
1792
On the Propriety of Bringing Louis XVI to Trial
To the French National Convention October 22, 1792
An Essay for the Use of New Republicans
Address to the People of France
Letter Addressed to the Addressers
To The Sheriff of the County of Sussex
Letters to Onslow Cranley
Letters on the Prosecution of Rights of Man
Answer to Four Questions
To the English Attorney-General
1793
Shall Louis XVI be Respited?
Observations on the Situation of the Powers
1794
The New Covenant
To the French National Convention August 7, 1794
Forgetfulness
From the Castle in the Air
1795
1796
Contentment
Letters on the Bank
1797
The Eighteenth Fructidor
The Recall of Monroe
Prosecution of the Age of Reason
Worship and Church Bells
Age of Reason Letters
1799
1800
1801
On the Means of generating Motion for Mechanical Uses
The Existence of God
1802
1803
Lines, Extempore
The Construction of Iron Bridges
Reply to the Bishop of Llandaff
From Mr. Paine to Mr. Jefferson
Examination of the Prophesies
My Private Thoughts on a Future State
1804
To the French Inhabitants of Louisiana
Remarks on Gouverneur Morris’s Funeral Oration on General Hamilton
To the People of England on the Invasion of England
Prospect Papers
1805
To the Citizens of Pennsylvania on the Proposal for Calling a Convention
Another Callender
Remarks on English Affairs
Origin of Freemasonry
Constitutions, Governments, and Charters
1806
Remarks on the Political and Military Affairs of Europe
Liberty of the Press
A Challenge to the Federalists
The Cause of the Yellow Fever
1807
Cheethem and his Tory Paper
On the Question Will There be War?
Of the Comparative Powers and Expense of Ships of War
Three Letters to Morgan Lewis
Of Gunboats
Of the English Navy
