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to GEORGE WASHINGTON, president of the united states of america. - Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man Part I (1791 ed.) [1791]

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Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution. (2nd edition) by Thomas Paine (London: J.S. Jordan, 1791).

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toGEORGE WASHINGTON,president of the united states of america.

SIR,

I present you a small Treatise in defence of those Principles of Freedom which your exemplary Virtue hath so eminently contributed to establish.—That the Rights of Man may become as universal as your Benevolence can wish, and that you may enjoy the Happiness of seeing the New World regenerate the Old, is the Prayer of

Sir, Your much obliged, and Obedient humble Servant,

THOMAS PAINE.