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Full text of Thomas Paine's --Common Sense--Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.
Full text of Thomas Paine's --Common Sense--Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs. IN the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense: and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves that he will ...
----- the writings of thomas paine collected and edited by moncure daniel conway volume i. 1774 - 1779 ----- xv. COMMON SENSE Table of Contents INTRODUCTION I. OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL, WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION II.
Full text of Thomas Paine's --Common Sense--Of the Present Ability of America: with some Miscellaneous Reflections. I HAVE never met with a man, either in England or America, who hath not confessed his opinion, that a separation between the countries would take place one time or other: And there is no instance in which we have shown less judgment, than in endeavoring to describe, what we call ...
Common Sense was an instant best-seller. Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic. Paine avoided flowery prose.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense. 10 Jan. 1776 Life 2:97--110, 114--20, 120--22. On the Origin and Design of Government in General, With Concise Remarks on the English Constitution. Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.
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