Common Sense - Thomas Paine

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our peaceable disposition towards them, and of our desire of entering into trade with them; such a memorial would produce more good effects to this Continent than if a ship were freighted with petitions to Britain.

      Under our present denomination of British subjects, we can neither be received nor heard abroad; the custom of all Courts is against us, and will be so, until by an independence we take rank with other nations.

      These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time become familiar and agreeable; and until an independence is declared, the Continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.

      The Life Of Thomas Paine

      by Moncure D. Conway

       Table of Contents

       VOLUME I.

       VOLUME II.

      The Life of Thomas Paine

      VOLUME I.

       Table of Contents

       Preface

       Chapter I. Early Influences

       Chapter II. Early Struggles

       Chapter III. Domestic Trouble

       {1774}

       Chapter IV. The New World

       {1775}

       Chapter V. Liberty And Equality

       {1776}

       Chapter VI. "Common Sense"

       Chapter VII. Under The Banner Of Independence

       {1777}

       Chapter VIII. Soldier And Secretary

       {1778}

       Chapter IX. French Aid, And The Paine-deane Controversy.

       {1779}

       Chapter X. A Story By Gouverneur Morris

       CHAPTER XI. Cause, Country, Self

       {1780}

       Chapter XII. A Journey To France

       {1781}

       Chapter XIII. The Muzzled Ox Treading Out The Grain.

       {1782}

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       CHAPTER XIV. Great Washington And Poor Paine

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       Chapter XV. Pontifical And Political Inventions

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       Chapter XVI. Returning To The Old Home

       {1788}

       Chapter XVII. A British Lion With An American Heart

       {1789}

       Chapter XVIII. Paine's Letters To Jefferson In Paris

       Chapter XIX. The Key Of The Bastille

       {1790}

       Chapter XX. "the Rights Of Man"

       {1791}

       Part I. of "The Rights of Man" was printed by Johnson in time for the

       Chapter XXI. Founding The European Republic

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       Chapter XXII. The Right Of Evolution

       Chapter XXIII. The Deputy For Calais In The Convention

       Chapter XXIV. Outlawed In England

      Preface

       Table of Contents

      At Hornsey, England, I saw a small square

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