MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THOMAS PAINER. Carlile, 1819 - 232 pages |
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... parliament supported the King in what was called his right of sovereignty , and the King in return asserted the right of the parliament to tax the Americans at pleasure . For twelve years the controversy was LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE . 29.
... parliament supported the King in what was called his right of sovereignty , and the King in return asserted the right of the parliament to tax the Americans at pleasure . For twelve years the controversy was LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE . 29.
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... taxes , and as the declarations of the government did not quell the spirit of resistance which prevailed throughout the colonies , the blind infatuation of the ministry determined them on taking more decisive steps to ensure obedience ...
... taxes , and as the declarations of the government did not quell the spirit of resistance which prevailed throughout the colonies , the blind infatuation of the ministry determined them on taking more decisive steps to ensure obedience ...
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... tax , but to bind us in all cases whatsoever ; ' and if being bound in that manner is not slavery , there is no such a thing as slavery upon earth . Even the expression is impious ; for so limited a power can belong only to God . " The ...
... tax , but to bind us in all cases whatsoever ; ' and if being bound in that manner is not slavery , there is no such a thing as slavery upon earth . Even the expression is impious ; for so limited a power can belong only to God . " The ...
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... tax upon those who refused to take it . The proposal was a politic plan for detecting those who were treacherous from principle , and for converting those who were so from an interested or mis- taken motive of securing the good opinion ...
... tax upon those who refused to take it . The proposal was a politic plan for detecting those who were treacherous from principle , and for converting those who were so from an interested or mis- taken motive of securing the good opinion ...
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... taxation . He could not have had a better opportunity of depicting the . miseries of military contention , and the portrait he has drawn is natural as life . In June following , he published at Philadel- phia the ninth number of the ...
... taxation . He could not have had a better opportunity of depicting the . miseries of military contention , and the portrait he has drawn is natural as life . In June following , he published at Philadel- phia the ninth number of the ...
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Page 45 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 102 - Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
Page 111 - The right of reform is in the nation in its original character, and the constitutional method would be by a general convention elected for the purpose.
Page 46 - The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Page 165 - It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be.
Page 160 - Robespierre; he was seized and imprisoned in his turn, and sentenced to transportation. He has since apologized to me for having signed the warrant, by saying he felt himself in danger and was obliged to do it.
Page 128 - If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy, and every species of hereditary government; to lessen the oppression of taxes ; to propose plans for the education of helpless infancy, and the comfortable support of the aged and distressed ; to...
Page 5 - After the sermon was ended, I went into the garden, and as I was going down the garden steps (for I perfectly recollect the spot) I revolted at the recollection of what I had heard, and thought to myself that it was making God Almighty act like a passionate man, that killed his son. when he could not revenge himself in any other way, and as I was sure a man would be hanged that did such a thing, I could not see for what purpose they preached such sermons.
Page xxxvii - I Thomas Paine, of the state of New York, author of the work entitled ' Common Sense,' written in Philadelphia, in 1775, and published in that city the beginning of 'January, 1776, which awaked America to a Declaration of Independence, on the fourth of July following, which was as fast as the work could spread through such an extensive country ; author also of the several numbers of the
Page 103 - He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy- victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon.