The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life, Volume 1G. Davidson, 1824 |
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... obliged to seek assist- ance and relief of another , who in his turn requires the same . Four or five united would be able to raise a toler- able dwelling in the midst of a wilderness , but one man might labor out the common period of ...
... obliged to seek assist- ance and relief of another , who in his turn requires the same . Four or five united would be able to raise a toler- able dwelling in the midst of a wilderness , but one man might labor out the common period of ...
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... obliged to check ? Such a power could not be the gift of a wise people , neither can any power which needs check- ing , be from God ; yet the provision , which the constitution makes , supposes such a power to exist . But the provision ...
... obliged to check ? Such a power could not be the gift of a wise people , neither can any power which needs check- ing , be from God ; yet the provision , which the constitution makes , supposes such a power to exist . But the provision ...
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... obliged to fly from a palace to a foreign land ; yet , as sudden transitions of temper are seldom lasting , Henry in his turn was driven from the throne , and Edward recalled to succeed him . The parliament always following the ...
... obliged to fly from a palace to a foreign land ; yet , as sudden transitions of temper are seldom lasting , Henry in his turn was driven from the throne , and Edward recalled to succeed him . The parliament always following the ...
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... obliged to import most of the materials they use . We ought to view the building a fleet as an article of commerce , it being the natural manufac- ture of this country . It is the best money we can lay out . A navy when finished is ...
... obliged to import most of the materials they use . We ought to view the building a fleet as an article of commerce , it being the natural manufac- ture of this country . It is the best money we can lay out . A navy when finished is ...
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... obliged to punish them by the military one , and apply the sword , in the very case where you have before now applied the halter . Perhaps we feel for the ruined and insulted sufferers in all and every part of the continent , with a ...
... obliged to punish them by the military one , and apply the sword , in the very case where you have before now applied the halter . Perhaps we feel for the ruined and insulted sufferers in all and every part of the continent , with a ...
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Page 75 - 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 27 - And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Page 26 - And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
Page 32 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel ; and they said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; that we also may be like all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Page 370 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of...
Page 370 - Nor can any man, who acknowledges the being of God, be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of his religious sentiments or peculiar mode of religious worship...
Page 276 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
Page 34 - ... twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is true; for I answer roundly that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power taken any notice of her.
Page 290 - And we do further strictly enjoin and require all persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any lands within the countries above described, or upon any other lands which, not having been ceded to or purchased by us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such settlements.
Page 27 - Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.