Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern NationsPenguin, 04/09/2007 - 432 páginas 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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... person has ideas of him . Some respect his genius and dread the man . Some reverence his political , while they hate his religious , opin- ions . Some love the man , but not his private manners . Indeed he has done nothing which has not ...
... person has ideas of him . Some respect his genius and dread the man . Some reverence his political , while they hate his religious , opin- ions . Some love the man , but not his private manners . Indeed he has done nothing which has not ...
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... person his correspondents in the British Midlands . He visited a marble works , Joseph Priestley , caverns , a silk mill , Erasmus Darwin , an ironworks , James Watt , the Bridgewater Canal , and Matthew Boulton in his Soho Manufactory ...
... person his correspondents in the British Midlands . He visited a marble works , Joseph Priestley , caverns , a silk mill , Erasmus Darwin , an ironworks , James Watt , the Bridgewater Canal , and Matthew Boulton in his Soho Manufactory ...
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... person of imagination and feeling , such as the Spectator finely describes , can have the most lively enjoyment . ” If happiness had a definition with this coterie , it would be the eudae- monism of Aristotle , as recapitulated by Locke ...
... person of imagination and feeling , such as the Spectator finely describes , can have the most lively enjoyment . ” If happiness had a definition with this coterie , it would be the eudae- monism of Aristotle , as recapitulated by Locke ...
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... person of learning is finally his own teacher , " he said . " I seldom passed five minutes of my life however circumstanced in which I did not ac- quire some knowledge . " Drinking , smoking , and arguing in St. Paul's Coffee - House at ...
... person of learning is finally his own teacher , " he said . " I seldom passed five minutes of my life however circumstanced in which I did not ac- quire some knowledge . " Drinking , smoking , and arguing in St. Paul's Coffee - House at ...
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... person , and solicited to draw up their case , and this he did in a very succinct and masterly manner . ” Pain worked day and night to draft his colleagues ' petition , The Case of the Officers of Excise , before the legislature . Its ...
... person , and solicited to draw up their case , and this he did in a very succinct and masterly manner . ” Pain worked day and night to draft his colleagues ' petition , The Case of the Officers of Excise , before the legislature . Its ...
Índice
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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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