Thomas Paine, the Apostle of Liberty: An Address Delivered in Chicago, January 29, 1916; Including the Testimony of Five Hundred WitnessesRemsburg, John E. (John Eleazer)
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Thomas Paine, the Apostle of Liberty: An Address Delivered in Chicago, January 29, 1916; Including the Testimony of Five Hundred Witnesses
Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer)
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
In addition to his three literary masterpieces and the "Crisis" Paine
wrote many remarkable books and pamphlets, the more important of which
are the following: "Public Good," Philadelphia, 1780; "Letter to Abbé
Raynal," Philadelphia, 1782; "Dissertation on Government," Philadelphia,
1786; "Prospects on the Rubicon," London, 1787; "Address of Société
Républicaine," Paris, 1791; "Address to the Adressers," London, 1792;
"Plea for Life of Louis Capet," "French Constitution of '93," Paris,
1793; "On First Principles of Government," Paris, 1795; "Decline and
Fall of the English System of Finance," published in all the languages
of Europe. 1796; "Agrarian Justice," "Letter to Camille Jordan, Paris,
1797; "Essay on Dreams," "Examination of Prophecies," New York,
1807; "Reply to Bishop of Llandaff," New York, 1810; "Miscellaneous
Poems,"'London, 1819.
"These [Paine's books] were battles, victories--the simplest, yet
the grand and notorious facts of that wondrous war and age."--_T. B.
Wakeman_.
M. de Bonneville, the noted French journalist and Revolutionary leader,
and the almost constant companion of Paine during the ten or more years
that he resided in Paris, says: "All his pamphlets have been popular
and powerful. He wrote with composure and steadiness, as if under the
guidance of a tutelary genius. If, for an instant, he stopped, it was
always in the attitude of a man who listens. The Saint Jerome of Raphael
would give a perfect idea of his contemplative recollection, to listen
to the voice from on high which makes itself heard in the heart."
"When the old traditions of prejudice have passed, away, Paine's name
will have its due place not only in our political but in our literary
history, as that of a man of native genius whose prose bears being read
beside that of Burke on the same theme, and who found in sincerity the
secret of a nobler eloquence than his antagonists could draw from their
stores of literature or the fountain of their ill-will."--_John M.
Robertson_.
"He was a great writer. Cobbett knew it, Hazlitt knew it, and Landor
knew it."--_George W. Foote_.
George Brandes: "One of the largest figures in our literary history."
Mrs. M. E. Cadwallader: "His writings have become classics. They Will
live when those who vilified him are forgotten."
Pittsburgh Press: "The science of criticism, like the spectrum analysis
which reveals the composition of the stars, points unerringly to Thomas
Paine as the only man who could have indited that greatest of literary
masterpieces, the Declaration of Independence."
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