The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life, Band 1G. Davidson, 1824 |
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... equals in the order of creation , the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance ; the distinctions of rich and poor , may in a great measure be accounted for , and that without having recourse to the harsh , ill ...
... equals in the order of creation , the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance ; the distinctions of rich and poor , may in a great measure be accounted for , and that without having recourse to the harsh , ill ...
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... equal rights of nature , so neither can it be defended on the authority of scripture ; for the will of the Almighty , as declared by Gideon and the prophet Samuel , expressly disapproves of government by kings . All anti - monarchical ...
... equal rights of nature , so neither can it be defended on the authority of scripture ; for the will of the Almighty , as declared by Gideon and the prophet Samuel , expressly disapproves of government by kings . All anti - monarchical ...
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... equals , no one by birth , could have a right to set up his own family , in perpetual preference to all others for ever , and though himself might deserve some degree of honors of his contemporaries , yet his descendants might be far ...
... equals , no one by birth , could have a right to set up his own family , in perpetual preference to all others for ever , and though himself might deserve some degree of honors of his contemporaries , yet his descendants might be far ...
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... equal to the expense of blood and treasure we have been already put to . The object contended for , ought always to bear some just proportion to the expense . The removal of North , or the whole detestable junto , is a matter unworthy ...
... equal to the expense of blood and treasure we have been already put to . The object contended for , ought always to bear some just proportion to the expense . The removal of North , or the whole detestable junto , is a matter unworthy ...
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... equal . Their business wholly domestic , and subject to the authority of a continental con- gress . Let each colony be divided into six , eight , or ten , con- venient districts , each district to send a proper number of delegates to ...
... equal . Their business wholly domestic , and subject to the authority of a continental con- gress . Let each colony be divided into six , eight , or ten , con- venient districts , each district to send a proper number of delegates to ...
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Seite 75 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Seite 27 - And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Seite 26 - And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
Seite 32 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel ; and they said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; that we also may be like all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Seite 370 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of...
Seite 370 - Nor can any man, who acknowledges the being of God, be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of his religious sentiments or peculiar mode of religious worship...
Seite 276 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
Seite 34 - ... twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is true; for I answer roundly that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power taken any notice of her.
Seite 290 - And we do further strictly enjoin and require all persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any lands within the countries above described, or upon any other lands which, not having been ceded to or purchased by us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such settlements.
Seite 27 - Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.