Miscellaneous Articles: By Thomas Paine. Consisting of A Letter to the Marquis of Lansdowne. A Letter to the Authors of the Republican. A Letter to the Abbe Syeyes. Thoughts on the Peace, and the Probable Advantages Thereof. First Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. Letter to Lord Onslow. Second Letter to Mr. Dundas. And a Letter to the People of FranceJ. Ridgway, 1792 - 36 páginas |
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Página 28 - It is to the peculiar honour of France, that she now raises the standard of liberty for all nations ; and in fighting her own battles, contends for the rights of all mankind.
Página 15 - Congress receives, as a compensation for his time and attendance on public business, one pound seven shillings a day, which is at the rate of nearly five hundred pounds a year. This is a Government that has nothing to fear. It needs no proclamations to deter people from writing and reading. It needs no political superstition to support it; it was by encouraging discussion, and rendering the press free...
Página 18 - The hearts of the humane will not be shocked by ragged and hungry children, and persons of seventy and eighty years of age begging for bread. The dying poor will not be dragged from place to place to breathe their last, as a reprisal of parish upon parish. Widows will have a maintenance for their children, and not be carted away, on the death of their husbands, like culprits and criminals; and children will no longer be considered as increasing the distresses of their parents.
Página 29 - The scene that now opens itself to France extends far beyond the boundaries of her own dominions. Every nation is becoming her colleague, and every court is become her enemy. It is now the cause of all nations, against the cause of all courts.
Página 11 - ... scenes of war are closed, and every man preparing for home and happier times, I therefore take my leave of the subject. I have most sincerely followed it from beginning to end, and through all its turns and windings: and whatever country I may hereafter be in, I shall always feel an honest pride at the part I have taken and acted, and a gratitude to nature and providence for putting it in my power to be of some use to mankind.
Página 8 - To see it in our power to make a world happy, to teach mankind the art of being so. to exhibit, on the theatre of the universe, a character hitherto unknown, and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated, nor too gratefully received.
Página 16 - ... to be accounted for, not by the difference of proclamations, but by the difference of governments and the difference of taxes between that country and this. What the...
Página 28 - Man is ever a stranger to the ways by which Providence regulates the order of things. The interference of foreign Despots may serve to introduce into their own enslaved countries the principles they come to oppose, Liberty and Equality are Blessings too great to be the inheritance of France alone. It is honour to her to be their first champion and she may now say to her enemies. with a mighty voice, ..O...
Página 9 - ... and the reward of her toil . In this situation, may she never forget that a fair national reputation is of as much importance as independence. That it possesses a charm that wins upon the world, and makes even enemies civil . That it gives a dignity which is often superior to power, and commands reverence where pomp and splendor fail.
Página 11 - Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home', by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS — our inferior one varies with the place.