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Thomas Paine
Paine, Thomas
Paine, Thomas (1737–1809) British political writer. After emigrating to America in 1774, he wrote the pamphlet
Common Sense (1776), which called for American independence and laid the ground for the Declaration of Independence. On returning to England in 1787, he published
The Rights of Man (1791), defending the French Revolution in response to Burke's
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). His radical views prompted the British government to indict him for treason and he fled to France. There he supported the Revolution but opposed the execution of Louis XVI. He was imprisoned for a year, during which time he wrote
The Age of Reason (1794), an attack on orthodox Christianity.
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The Thomas Paine Society. (Frontline).
Magazine article from: History Today; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; THOMAS PAINE, the great radical, democrat and secularist...Saturday to June 8th, members of the Thomas Paine Society (TPS) gather at noon at the...between a republican and a monarchist. Thomas Paine was an outspoken republican and his arguments...
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Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Early American Literature; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution EDWARD...Revolutionary Era have likely heard of Thomas Paine or Common Sense. Perhaps they even know...In light of this, Edward Larkin's Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution comes...
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Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the...2006. Pp. xv, 396. $27.95.) Thomas Paine is periodically rediscovered as the...prose generally flows easily. He is no Thomas Paine as a stylist, but readers will appreciate...
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Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Paine.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...friends. WORKS CITED Ayer, A. J. Thomas Paine. London: Secker & Warburg...Moncure Daniel. The Life of Thomas Paine. Ed. Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner...ed. The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine. Vol. 2. New York: Citadel...
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Revisionist patricide: Thomas Paine's 'Letter to George Washington.'
Magazine article from: CLIO; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; Thomas Paine's Letter to George Washington (1796...revolution. During the American Revolution, Thomas Paine was an admirer and a friend of George...an ominous memorandum: "Demand that Thomas Paine be decreed of accusation for the interests...
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The lost founder: Thomas Paine has often been the forgotten (and sometimes the ostracized) Founding Father. It's time to start remembering--and celebrating.
Magazine article from: The American Prospect; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...calling forth the revolutionary, Thomas Paine, and quoting Paine's words...Washington, Benjamin Franklin, or Thomas Jefferson. Paine had never really been admitted...Britain's Industrial Revolution, Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable...
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Times that try men's souls ; BIOGRAPHY ++ Thomas Paine By Craig Nelson PROFILE [pound]20
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 1/14/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...genuinely intimate biography of Thomas Paine is not an easy task. Most of his...ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine". These and other curmudgeons...out in various ways to destroy Thomas Paine, and with him dangerous notions...
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Thomas Paine 'ignited the Revolution'?
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register; 7/4/2009; ; 518 words
; Let us think about Thomas Paine this Fourth of July. President...will ascribe the Revolution to Thomas Paine." Paine, however, has never...Presidents George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. Arguably Paine was the Founding Father most...
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Thomas Paine and the Religion of Nature.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1996; ; 677 words
; ...even an iconoclastic thinker like Thomas Paine was a "product of his time as much...republican, and Enlightenment roots of Paine's rhetoric and ideology have been...Fruchtman adds another dimension to Paine's persona: that of secular preacher...
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Ruby Dee to join parks celebration of 250th anniversary of Thomas Paine's birth. (NEWS ADVISORY)
PR Newswire; 1/26/1987; 700+ words
; ...CELEBRATION OF 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THOMAS PAINE'S BIRTH, THURSDAY, JAN. 29...Revolutionary leader and writer Thomas Paine, Parks Commissioner Henry J...his honor at the rededication of Thomas Paine Park, located at Centre and Pearl...
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Thomas Paine
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-born journalist and Revolutionary propagandist. His writings convinced many American colonists of the need for independence. Thomas Paine came to America in 1774, an unknown and insignificant...
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Excerpt from "Common Sense" (1776, by Thomas Paine)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
EXCERPT FROM "COMMON SENSE" (1776, by Thomas Paine) With the publication of Common Sense early in the...the Crown. Penned anonymously by the English-born Thomas Paine, who had immigrated to America at the urging of Benjamin...
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Paine, Thomas
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
PAINE, THOMAS Social agitator Thomas Paine was an influential political writer whose support of revolution...evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." — Thomas Paine After the United States' victory over England, Paine devoted...
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Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Book article from: American Eras
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Sources Revolutionary writer Background. Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England, on 29 January 1737. The son of a corsetiere...
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Paine, Robert Treat
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Paine, Robert Treat (1773–1811), was reared in the best society...was sung throughout the nation. Until 1801 he used his christened name, Thomas Paine, but that year he adopted the name of a dead brother, presumably because...
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