Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern NationsPenguin, 04.09.2007 - 432 Seiten A fresh new look at the Enlightenment intellectual who became the most controversial of America's founding fathers Despite his being a founder of both the United States and the French Republic, the creator of the phrase "United States of America," and the author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine is the least well known of America's founding fathers. This edifying biography by Craig Nelson traces Paine's path from his years as a London mechanic, through his emergence as the voice of revolutionary fervor on two continents, to his final days in the throes of dementia. By acquainting us as never before with this complex and combative genius, Nelson rescues a giant from obscurity-and gives us a fascinating work of history. |
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... living in a fool's paradise , blind to the debauched march of English history . Now he found that Britain's wealthy had only gotten richer and its working class had fallen further into poverty ; he saw the starving poor riot for food ...
... living in a fool's paradise , blind to the debauched march of English history . Now he found that Britain's wealthy had only gotten richer and its working class had fallen further into poverty ; he saw the starving poor riot for food ...
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... living in Philadelphia , Cobbett had attacked this group of do - gooders , claiming that their " humanity , like that of all the reforming philosophers of the present enlightened day , is of the speculative kind . It never breaks out ...
... living in Philadelphia , Cobbett had attacked this group of do - gooders , claiming that their " humanity , like that of all the reforming philosophers of the present enlightened day , is of the speculative kind . It never breaks out ...
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... national joke , with the English Tory press taunting Cobbett as a " resur- rection man , " referring to those who made a living by supplying medical schools with cadavers of dubious origins , and Lord Byron The Mission of Atonement 7.
... national joke , with the English Tory press taunting Cobbett as a " resur- rection man , " referring to those who made a living by supplying medical schools with cadavers of dubious origins , and Lord Byron The Mission of Atonement 7.
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... living in the Temple , and an excellent astronomer . " Historians have long wondered exactly how this lower - class rarely - do - well became the most popular author of the eighteenth century and famed citizen of the world . He did it ...
... living in the Temple , and an excellent astronomer . " Historians have long wondered exactly how this lower - class rarely - do - well became the most popular author of the eighteenth century and famed citizen of the world . He did it ...
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... living , all inspired by Horace's encomium ex fumo dare lucem , " to turn the darkness light . " Members of the Spectator Club - prudent , dignified merchant Sir An- drew Freeport ; courageous retired soldier Captain Sentry ; kind ...
... living , all inspired by Horace's encomium ex fumo dare lucem , " to turn the darkness light . " Members of the Spectator Club - prudent , dignified merchant Sir An- drew Freeport ; courageous retired soldier Captain Sentry ; kind ...
Inhalt
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Pragmatic Utopians | 51 |
Hell Is Not Easily Conquered | 101 |
The Silas Deane Affair | 126 |
The Missionary Bereft of His Mission | 146 |
Droits de lHomme ou Droits du Seigneur? | 181 |
The Sovereigns Among Us | 235 |
The Religion of Science | 260 |
The Perfidious Mr Morris | 273 |
Utopian Dissolves | 305 |
Provenance | 326 |
Notes | 341 |
Sources | 365 |
Index | 377 |
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