Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
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Bicentennial of the Death of Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
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Common Sense (1776) which was an early call for the independence of the American colonies from Britain. His other well known work is The Rights of Man (1791) which was a reply to Burke’s critique of the French Revolution. Although he was a best selling author in the 1770s by the the time of his death he was largely forgotton in America. [For further reading see The American Revolution and the Debate about the French Revolution] |
OLL Birthdays & Anniversaries
- Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Staël-Holstein (April 22, 1766)
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- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859)
- Frank Taussig (1859-1940)
- Franz Oppenheimer (March 30, 1864)
- Friedrich August von Hayek (May 8, 1899)
- George Mason (December 11, 1725)
- H.B. Acton (1908-1974)
- Harriet Taylor Mill (October 8, 1807)
- J.A. Hobson (1858-1940)
- James Mill, Commerce Defended (1808)
- Jane Marcet (1769-1858)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712)
- Jeremy Bentham (February 15, 1748)
- John Bright (November 16, 1811)
- John Calvin (1509-1564)
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (1859)
- Lord Macaulay (1800-1859)
- Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (September 29, 1881)
- Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
- Samuel Smiles' Self Help (1859)
- Thomas Clarkson, History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1808)
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
- Vattel’s Law of Nations (1758)
- Voltaire’s Candide (1759)
- William Blackstone (July 10, 1723)
- William Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609)