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When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense they became an overnight success. First released in 1776 at the height of the American Revolution the treatise denounced British rule and is thought to have been so popular as to have influenced the path of the revolution itself. In the words of Historian Gordon S. Wood Common Sense was, "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."
Teresa_Pelka: Paths by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine parted, in their living experience. The names continue together in history, for the role both men had in American independence.
O panfleto foi publicado de forma anônima em 1776 e segundo os historiadores foi peça chave na declaração de independência dos Estados Unidos e na revolução americana. O inglês é antigo mas ainda é possível entender os argumentos e paralelos que o autor faz. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Man knows no Mafbr fave creating HEAVEN, Or thofe whom choice and common good ordain.
Thomson
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages are not sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.
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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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Sincerely wishing, that as men and christians, ye may always fully and uninterruptedly enjoy every civil and religious right; and be, in your turn, the means of securing it to others; but that the example which ye have unwisely set, of mingling religion with politics, may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of AMERICA.
When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense they became an overnight success. First released in 1776 at the height of the American Revolution the treatise denounced British rule and is thought to have been so popular as to have influenced the path of the revolution itself. In the words of Historian Gordon S. Wood Common Sense was, "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."
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Thomas Paine and Common Sense
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