Common Sense and Other Works by Thomas PaineFirst Avenue Editions ™, 2019 M01 1 - 826 páginas Known as the Father of the American Revolution, English-American author Thomas Paine became famous for two pamphlets that inspired the colonists to fight for their independence. Common Sense, published in 1776, fostered the idea that the colonists could separate from the tyrannical rule of the British monarchy, and The American Crisis, published that same year, encouraged soldiers to fight against the British Army. Paine's later writings included The Rights of Man (1791), a series of articles defending the French Revolution and asserting that people should rise up if governments failed to protect their natural rights. His final text, The Age of Reason (1794–1796), challenged institutionalized religion and critiqued Christian theology, advocating instead for reason and scientific inquiry. This collection features unabridged editions of all four of the American revolutionary's main pamphlets and writings. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 87
... whole colony may assemble to deliberate on public matters. It is more than probable that their first laws will have ... whole body, who are supposed to have the same concerns at stake which those who appointed them, and who will act in ...
... whole character to be absurd and useless. Some writers have explained the English constitution thus; the king, say they, is one, the people another; the peers are an house in behalf of the king; the commons in behalf of the people; but ...
... whole affair is a felo de se; for as the greater weight will always carry up the less, and as all the wheels of a machine are put in motion by one, it only remains to know which power in the constitution has the most weight, for that ...
... whole history of England disowns the fact. Thirty kings and two minors have reigned in that distracted kingdom since the conquest, in which time there have been (including the Revolution) no less than eight civil wars and nineteen ...
... whole weight of business, civil and military, lies on the king; the children of Israel in their request for a king, urged this plea “that he may judge us, and go out before us and fight our battles.” But in countries where he is neither ...
Contenido
Chapter V | |
Appendix | |
THE AGE OF REASON | |
Chapter I | |
Chapter IV | |
Of the True Theology | |
Chapter VIII | |
Chapter X | |
Notes to The American Crisis | |
Editors Introduction | |
Paines Preface to the French Edition | |
Rights Of Man Part Second | |
Of Society and Civilisation | |
Chapter III | |
Chapter IV | |
Chapter XII | |
System of the Universe | |
The Age of ReasonPart II | |
Chapter II | |
Chapter III | |