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"You can paint," she said, "why should you want to write?" "I can't paint," he reached up and caught her hand in his; "you think I can, but I can't. And I am not wonderful Yet here I must sit and listen while you and Becky sing young Paine's praises." He flung out his complaint with his air of not being in earnest. The Admiral got up stiffly. "I've a letter to write before I go to bed.
Grover's division was sent ashore, followed by two brigades of Paine's division from Morganza. The wagon train went on down the road to the landing directly opposite Bayou Sara, under the escort of the 110th New York, and the 162d New York, with one section of Carruth's battery, all under the command of Benedict.
For these reasons, Paine's reception in Paris was cordial; visits and invitations poured in upon him; he dined with Malesherbes; M. Le Roy took him to Buffon's, where he saw some interesting experiments on inflammable air; the Abbe Morellet exerted himself to get the model of his bridge, which had been stopped at the custom-house, safely to Paris.
'But I will not do it, Jefferson says; 'his paper has saved our Constitution, which was galloping forth into monarchy. Jefferson's underhand attack upon Vice-President Adams, in the note he wrote by way of preface to the American publisher of Paine's 'Rights of Man, is a domestic treachery of the same kind, though very much less in degree.
Sometimes she would write them out, and then destroy them before any eyes but her own could read. Once she went to a neighbor's and saw Paine's "Age of Reason." She peeped into its pages by stealth, and then put it quickly away.
It must be recollected that churches and prayer books were not decorated in those days as I believe they are now. When I was fourteen, I read Paine's tracts against the Old Testament, and found pleasure in thinking of the objections which were contained in them. Also, I read some of Hume's essays; and perhaps that on Miracles. So at least I gave my father to understand; but perhaps it was a brag.
Now he pleaded, "Disbelieve in the King of kings, but do not confuse with that idol the Father of Mankind!" In Paine's Preface to the Second Part of "The Age of Reason" he describes himself as writing the First Part near the close of the year 1793.
Grant Thorburn was suspended from church-membership for shaking hands with him. To the boys he was an object of curious attention; his nose was the burden of their songs. Cheetham carried round a subscription-list for a public dinner. Sixty or seventy of Paine's admirers attended. It went off brilliantly, and was duly reported in the "American Citizen."
But in 1809, the venerable Doctor was an old man; and even in earlier days, his keen appreciation of "Ille ego qui quondam" and "Quorum pars magna fui," as the choicest passages in Virgil, was good-naturedly noticed by his contemporaries. Paine's own account of the work is probably the true one: "In October, 1775, Dr.
Maybe that was why things had gone wrong. She thought about Mrs. Paine's words about being tied down with children and hard work, and how she had pleaded with her to be warned! Pearl tried to make the warning real and effective tried to harden her heart and fill it with ambitions, in which love and marriage had no place.
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