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Thomas Paine After meeting Benjamin Franklin in London, Paine emigrated to America in 1774 where he published an antislavery tract and became co-editor of Pennsylvania Magazine . No great fan of the English King (or any other royalty for that matter), Paine soon became an articulate spokesman for the American independence movement. Paine's pro-independence pamphlet Common Sense published in January of 1776 quickly became well known to every literate colonist. It is claimed that as many as half a million copies may have been distributed in a country with only a few million inhabitants. Legend tells that Paine was tarred and feathered at one time in New Jersey, but no proof exists to this legend. Many scurrilous tales about Paine were circulated, first in reaction by the British during the time of the American Revolution, and later by his political opponents. Thomas Paine used his powerful ability to present ideas common to his time in clear form, in contrast with highly philosophical approaches carried by his colleagues. Common Sense convinced many Americans, including George

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Thomas Paine (1737-1809) The Pennsylvania Magazine . Among other things, in 1775 he penned his first denunciation of slavery, and often thought of doing a whole book against it. He became friends with others sharing hi s outlooks, including Joel Barlow and the artist Benjamin Rush. By April 1775 the shooting war with Britain had begun at Lexington. As Paine later wrote to Ben Franklin, "I thought it very hard to have the country set on fire about my ears almost the mo ment I got into it" (Aldridge, 1959, 33). Paine readily embraced the cause of liberty, having long detested the nobilities and monarchies of Europe. While Paine early busied himself with a scheme to hide gunpowder shops in private homes, his more import ant work was his initially anonymous authorship of Common Sense . The first vigorously written disavowal of the authority of the King as well as Parliament in the colonies, it claimed that the colonies had reached maturity and should separat e from the parental country. It appeared in January 1776 and sold nearly a half million copies when the colonies contained but three million people. But although Paine himself paid the L 40 for its publication, the royalties were given to the army to bu y mittens for Patriot soldiers. As the most effective propagandist for the Patriot cause, Paine called himself "Cato" when writing The Forester letters against Loyalists, and then his

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Home Authors Titles Keyword Search ... Reference Thomas Paine Born in Thetford, England, on January 29, 1737, Thomas Paine emigrated to America in 1774, arriving just before the dawn of the American Revolution. At first an advocate of reconciliation with England, after the battles of Lexington and Concord, he became an outspoken propagandist for the Revolution. His great and highly influential pamphlet Common Sense , published in January 1776, was the first explicit assault on the rule of America by the British crown. In simple, concise language, Paine laid out how an independent government could be controlled by the people, and how rich and poor alike could share equally the privileges and resonsibilities of government, and how no special preferment should be attached to any one religious sect, but that religious diversity should be respected. Following the War of Independence, Paine returned to England and was welcomed as a celebrity. He fell from favor, however, when he published The Rights of Man , a defense of the French Revolution, in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France . Forced to leave England by the controversy, he went to France where he was given citizenship. However, after he spoke out in favor of the deposed King Louis XVI, Paine was imprisoned in 1793 and nearly executed. While in prison, he began writing

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THOMAS PAINE PAINE, THOMAS (1737-1809), English author, was born at Thetford, Norfolk, on the 29th of January 1737, the son of a Quaker staymaker. After several years at sea and after trying various occupations on land, Paine took up his fathers trade in London, where he supplemented his meagre grammar school education by attending science lectures. He succeeded in 1762 in gaining an appointment in the excise, but was discharged for neglect of duty in 1765. Three years later, however, he received another appointment, at Lewes in Sussex. He took a vigorous share in the debates of a local Whig club, and in 1772 he wrote a pamphlet embodying the grievances of excisemen and supporting their demands for an increase of pay. In 1774 he was dismissed the service for absence without leavein order to escape his creditors. At the downfall of Robespierre Paine was restored to his seat in the convention, and served until it adjourned in October 170c. In 706 he published a long letter to Washington, attacking his military reputation and his presidential policy with inexcusable bitterness. In 1802 Paine sailed for America, but while his services in behalf of the colonies were gratefully remembered, his Age of Reason and his attack on Washington had alienated many of his friends. He died in New York on the 8th of June 1809, and was buried at New Rochelle, but his body was in. 1819 removed to England by William Cobbett. See the biography by Moncure D. Conway (I892).

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Search Page Science Site Index Main Start Page THOMAS PAINE [Library of Congress] Biographical Data Religious Views Quotations Misquotations Education: grammar school Occupation: Political Affiliation: Religious Affiliation: none Summary of Religious Views: Although he is often thought of as and atheist, Paine was actually a deist. Paine wrote extensively on the subject of religion, both promoting deism and criticizing Christianity and other religions, especially deriding belief in miracles other non-naturalistic occurrences. Paine strongly favored the separation of church and state, believing that government should be based on reason, not faith. He believed that the only valid role of government in religious affairs was to protect freedom of religion. Quotations: "As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensible duty of every government, to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith. Let a man throw aside that narrowness of soul, that selfishness of principle, which the niggards of all professions are so unwilling to part with; and he will be at once delivered of his fears on that head. Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. For myself, I fully and conscientiously believe, that it is the will of the Almighty, that there should be a diversity of religious opinions among us: it affords a larger field for our Christian kindness. Were we all of one way of thinking, our religious dispositions would want matter for probation; and on this liberal principle, I look on the various denominations among us, to be like children of the same family, differing only, in what is called, their Christian names."

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**[NEWS]** Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Common Sense. 1776. (0) Introduction PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. 1 As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he calls Theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpations of either. 2 In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious, or unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains are bestowed upon their conversion. 3 The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR. 4

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**[NEWS]** Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Common Sense. 1776. (4) Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflexions. I HAVE never met with a man, either in England or America, who hath not confessed his opinion, that a separation between the countries, would take place one time or other: And there is no instance, in which we have shewn less judgment, than in endeavouring to describe, what we call, the ripeness or fitness of the Continent for independance. 1 As all men allow the measure, and vary only in their opinion of the time, let us, in order to remove mistakes, take a general survey of things, and endeavour, if possible, to find out the very time. But we need not go far, the inquiry ceases at once, for, the time hath found us. The general concurrence, the glorious union of all things prove the fact. 2 It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world. The Continent hath, at this time, the largest body of armed and disciplined men of any power under Heaven; and is just arrived at that pitch of strength, in which, no single colony is able to support itself, and the whole, when united, can accomplish the matter, and either more, or, less than this, might be fatal in its effects. Our land force is already sufficient, and as to naval affairs, we cannot be insensible, that Britain would never suffer an American man of war to be built, while the continent remained in her hands. Wherefore, we should be no forwarder an hundred years hence in that branch, than we are now; but the truth is, we should be less so, because the timber of the country is every day diminishing, and that, which will remain at last, will be far off and difficult to procure. 3

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54. Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (17371809). Common Sense. Boston Edes Gill and T. J. Fleet, 1776. Paine s famous treatise is an eloquent piece http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/history/paine.html

THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809) Common Sense Paine's famous treatise is an eloquent piece of propagandizing demagoguery, written not for the minds of political diplomacy, but for the hearts of an enraged public tired of listening to reason. Paine, seeing and feeling the frustrations of an America kept from power by a British political system based on privilege and peerage, seized on the image of America as an archetypal New World capable of breaking the cycle and starting anew. "The cause of America," Paine wrote, "is in a great measure the cause of mankind." Common Sense did more to fan the flames of rebellion than any other piece of writing during the American revolutionary era. Common Sense

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56. PAINE, Thomas - Caroline Robbins, The lifelong education of TP (1737-1809) Some Reflections http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/p/paine_t.shtml

Verlag Traugott Bautz www.bautz.de/bbkl Zur Hauptseite Bestellmöglichkeiten Abkürzungsverzeichnis ... NEU: Unser E-News Service Wir informieren Sie vierzehntägig über Neuigkeiten und Änderungen per E-Mail. Helfen Sie uns, das BBKL aktuell zu halten! Band VI (1993) Spalten 1437-1441 Autor: Rainer Lahme Werke: Common Sense 1776; The Crisis 1-16, 1776-1783; Public Good, 1780; The Rights of Man, 1791/92; The Age of Reason, 1794/95; Agrarian Justice, 1797; T.P. Common Sense and Other Political Writings, ed. by Nelson F. Adkins, New York 1953; Common Sense and Crisis Papers, bearbeitet und eingeleitet von Karl-Heinz Schönfelder, Halle 1956 (mit Bibliographie der Einzelausgaben); T.P. Common Sense, ed. by Isaac Kramnick, Harmondsworth 1976; T.P., Rights of Man, ed. by Henry Collins, Harmondsworth 1969; T.P. Common Sense. Übersetzt und hrsg. von Lothar Meinzer, Stuttgart 1982; Die Rechte des Menschen. Eingeleitet von Theo Stemmler, Frankfurt 1973; Die Rechte des Menschen, hrsg., übersetzt und eingeleitet von Wolfgang Mönke, Berlin 1983 ; Die Politischen Werke von T.P.in zwei Bänden, Philadelphia 1852; The Writings of T.P., collected and edited by Moncure Daniel Conway, 4 Bde., New York 1894-1896, repr. New York 1967, 1972

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Lot 3428 - PAINE, THOMAS. 1737-1809. Philadelphia: W. and T. Bradford, [1776]. Estimate: $10000 - $15000 PAINE, THOMAS. 1737-1809. Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America. A New Edition, with several Additions in the Body of the Work. To which is added an Appendix; together with an Address to the People called Quakers. N. B. The New Addition here given increases the Work upwards of one Third. Philadelphia: W. and T. Bradford, [1776]. [6], 50pp. 8vo. Bound with Paine, Thomas. Rights of Man London: Symonds, 1791. [2], 78 pp. Original wraps. Later polished calf over marbled boards. Half-title to Common Sense cropped to just above top single rule, scattered foxing, heavier at end, otherwise very good. Third edition, one month after the first edition of January 1776. Paine, unhappy with the results from the original printer Robert Bell, immediately commissioned the Bradford brothers to produce a separate edition, and expanded the text by a third. They employed two separate printers, and this copy is the first issue printed by Towne, with a one-line "Erata" at end of the introduction. Gimbel CS-11. Provenance : From the Collection of Edwin and Irma Grabhorn.

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60. Thomas Paine 1737-1809 Thomas Paine 17371809. 1. Impoverished Englishman to most famous and powerfulvoice of revolution in America. . 2. Meets Franklin and comes to America. http://www.gprep.org/~donc/Paine.htm

Thomas Paine 1737-1809 "Impoverished Englishman" to "most famous and powerful voice of revolution in America." Meets Franklin and comes to America. It is a "time of great political and social ferment." Paine published Common Sense in January 1776 - "declaring that the turmoil could not be solved by submission to authority and laws. The Answer now lay in man's instincts, in common sense." Common Sense was written in a forceful style - for the average reader. a. It appealed to resentment of British atrocities b. Urged pity for the oppressed c. Painted a picture of the glories possible if the Colonies would strive for complete independence from the "fraud" of monarchy. Common Sense helped create the national mood that inspired the Declaration of Independence. Crisis papers helped keep the army together. Paine preached a. the doctrines of natural rights b. the equality of men c. the social contract The times that try men's souls are these. Men's souls are tried by these times. Men's souls by these times are tried.

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