The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life, Volume 2G. H. Evans, 1835 - Political science |
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... present national characters of England and France , cannot but be struck with surprise at the change that is taking place . The people of France are beginning to think for themselves , and the people of England are resigning up the ...
... present national characters of England and France , cannot but be struck with surprise at the change that is taking place . The people of France are beginning to think for themselves , and the people of England are resigning up the ...
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... present substance on the expectancy of distant returns . With regard to Holland , a man must know very littie of the matter , not to know that there exists a stronger principle of rival- ship between Holland and England in point of ...
... present substance on the expectancy of distant returns . With regard to Holland , a man must know very littie of the matter , not to know that there exists a stronger principle of rival- ship between Holland and England in point of ...
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... present reign , by embracing the Scotch , has tran quillized and conciliated the spirit that disturbed the two former reigns . Accusations were not wanting at that time to reprobate the policy as tinctured with ingratitude towards those ...
... present reign , by embracing the Scotch , has tran quillized and conciliated the spirit that disturbed the two former reigns . Accusations were not wanting at that time to reprobate the policy as tinctured with ingratitude towards those ...
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... repose depends upon uniting with the opposition in Holland , as the present reign did with the Scotch . How foolish then has been the policy , how needless the expense of engaging in a war on account 16 PROSPECTS ON THE RUBICON .
... repose depends upon uniting with the opposition in Holland , as the present reign did with the Scotch . How foolish then has been the policy , how needless the expense of engaging in a war on account 16 PROSPECTS ON THE RUBICON .
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... present politics are , that she is better without her than with her . Both these cannot be true , and their contradiction to each other shows want of system . If the latter is true , it amounts to an impeachment of the political ...
... present politics are , that she is better without her than with her . Both these cannot be true , and their contradiction to each other shows want of system . If the latter is true , it amounts to an impeachment of the political ...
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Page 274 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : he will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen ; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 294 - An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown...
Page 55 - It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
Page 68 - The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way.
Page 275 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.
Page 45 - 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 69 - ... every child born into the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is as new to him as it was to the first man that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.
Page 160 - ... unfortunately are, of the means of information, are easily heated to outrage. Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness. It shows that something is wrong in the system of government, that injures the felicity by which society is to be preserved.
Page 379 - ... circulates exchequer bills, and it advances to government the annual amount of the land and malt taxes, which are frequently not paid up till some years thereafter.
Page 68 - National Assembly of France as the basis on which the constitution of France is built. This he calls "paltry and blurred sheets of paper about the rights of man." — Does Mr. Burke mean to deny that man has any rights? If he does, then he must mean that there are no such things as rights any where, and that he has none himself; for who is there in the world but man?