Part of: The Writings of Thomas Paine, 4 vols. The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. I (1774-1779)

Vol. 1 of a 4 vol. collection of the works of Thomas Paine. Vol. 1 contains letters and newspaper articles, Common Sense, and The American Crisis.

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Citation

The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 1.

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Paine's essay Common Sense represents the high point in favor of independence and is profitably compared with the writings of one of the earliest pamphleteers of the colonial cause, James Otis.

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Revolution

We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand, and a race of men, perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom from the…

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Critical Responses

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Plain Truth addressed to the inhabitants of America containting remarks on a late pamphlet intitled Common Sense

Candidus (James Chalmers)

In 1776 James Chalmers, British Loyalist, authored a pamphlet entitled Plain Truth, a rebuke of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, going under the pen name “Candidus.

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Political Writings

As the leading essay in defense of Americn Independence, Common Sense should be compared with the arguments of the Revolution’s leading critic, Samuel Johnson.

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Cato’s Letters, 4 vols. in 2 (LF ed.)

Thomas Gordon

Paine’s ideas were deeply influenced by the English Radical Whigs of which Cato’s Letters are the preeeminent example.

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