Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 14, 2025
Some hints came to him from Condorcet, but most of these daringly novel ideas sprang from Paine's own inventive brain, and all of them are presented by the whilom exciseman, with a wealth of financial detail, as if he were a Chancellor of the Exchequer addressing the first Republican Parliament in the year One of Liberty. He would break up the poor laws, "these instruments of civil torture."
Before Abraham Lincoln began the study of law, he was connected with a clique or club of young men, who made light of religion, and read books that treated it as a delusion. It was at this time that he read Paine's "Age of Reason" and Volney's "Ruins," through which he was influenced to array himself against the Bible for a time, as much of a skeptic, almost, as any one of his boon companions.
He deserves the pillory, from you for having endeavoured to destroy a good constitution and the French may with equal reason grant him a triumph, as their constitution is likely to be so bad, that even Mr. Thomas Paine's writings may make it better! Our house is situated within view of a very pleasant public walk, where I am daily amused with a sight of the recruits at their exercise.
Conway in a fine passage, 'who hast appealed from the God of Wrath to the God of Humanity, see in the distance that Maryland coast which early voyagers called Avalon, and sing again your song when first stepping on that shore twenty-seven years ago. The rest of Paine's life was spent in America without distinction or much happiness.
It taught him to question the sanctity of established institutions, and it crushed in him, even if it did not wholly eradicate, strong passion and emotional demonstration. No man in England was as thorough a radical as he. Paine's or Holcroft's conceptions of human freedom were like forms of slavery compared to his broad, exhaustive theories.
He had that morning at the breakfast table asked his father to give him a boat like Will Paine's, but Mr. Davis had answered by a decided refusal. "You don't need any boat," he said, sharply. "It wouldn't cost very much," pleaded Halbert. "How much do you suppose?" "Will Paine told me his father paid fifty dollars for his." "Why don't you borrow it sometimes?" "I can't borrow it.
The Philadelphian called a meeting at the coffee-house, read Paine's communication, and proposed a subscription, heading the list with two hundred pounds in good money. Mr. Robert Morris put his name down for the same sum. Three hundred thousand pounds, Pennsylvania currency, were raised; and it was resolved to establish a bank with the fund for the relief of the army.
Paine's instructions, but found him so busy that he would not engage to give his attention to the boat under a week. The delay was regretted by our hero, since it cut him off from the employment by which he hoped to provide for his mother. Again Mrs. Rushton was in low spirits. "I am sorry you couldn't agree with Halbert Davis, Robert," she said, with a sigh.
He tried to cover his errors by brags and bombast, which became ridiculous, and which are yet not without significance. Cobbett came back from America with the relics of Paine. Paine, the object of his abuse, had become his idol, not because Cobbett cared much for any abstract political theories, or for religious dogmas. Paine's merit was that he had attacked paper money.
An attack by a detachment of Confederate cavalry upon the skirmishers of the 4th Wisconsin, in advance of the sugar-house, was easily thrown off, and a later demonstration by the Confederate infantry upon Paine's position in the grove shared the same fortune. Emory moved first the 8th New Hampshire, and afterwards the 133d and 173d New York, to the support of the 4th Wisconsin.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking