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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... petitions were referred to a select committee , who reported in favor of its repeal . Here was an attempt , under the pretence of promoting liberty , happiness and safety , to violate them all by a most tyrannical invasion of private ...
... petitions were referred to a select committee , who reported in favor of its repeal . Here was an attempt , under the pretence of promoting liberty , happiness and safety , to violate them all by a most tyrannical invasion of private ...
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... Petitions and remonstrances are worse than useless , as has been seen in innumerable instances , and among the number North- America was one : all the ability of the country was put in requi- sition to supplicate for a redress of ...
... Petitions and remonstrances are worse than useless , as has been seen in innumerable instances , and among the number North- America was one : all the ability of the country was put in requi- sition to supplicate for a redress of ...
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... petition , waiting four or five months for an answer , which , when obtained , re- quires five or six more to explain it in , will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness - there was a time when it was proper , and there ...
... petition , waiting four or five months for an answer , which , when obtained , re- quires five or six more to explain it in , will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness - there was a time when it was proper , and there ...
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... petition was before the house of assembly of Pennsylvania , twenty - eight members only were present ; all the Bucks county members , being eight , voted against it , and had seven of the Chester members done the same , this whole ...
... petition was before the house of assembly of Pennsylvania , twenty - eight members only were present ; all the Bucks county members , being eight , voted against it , and had seven of the Chester members done the same , this whole ...
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... petition of the New - York assembly with con- tempt , because that house , he said , consisted but of twen ty - six members , which trifling number , he argued , could not with decency be put for the whole . We thank him for his ...
... petition of the New - York assembly with con- tempt , because that house , he said , consisted but of twen ty - six members , which trifling number , he argued , could not with decency be put for the whole . We thank him for his ...
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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.