The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. II (1779-1792)
Vol. 2 of a 4 vol. collection of the works of Thomas Paine. Vol. 2 (1779-1792) contains the Letter to Abbey Raynal, Dissertations on Government, The Rights of Man (1 and 2) and various articles.
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 2.
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- Author: Thomas Paine
- Editor: Moncure Daniel Conway
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- Political Theory
- The American Revolution and Constitution
- The French Revolution
- Classics of Liberty
- The Debate about the French Revolution
- Natural Law and Natural Rights
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS.
- I.: PEACE, AND THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES.1 (First Letter.)
- messieurs hall and sellers.
- peace, and the newfoundland fisheries.1 (Second Letter.)
- peace, and the newfoundland fisheries.1 (Third Letter.)
- II.: THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
- III.: EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES.
- preamble to the act passed by the pennsylvania assembly march 1, 1780.
- IV.: PUBLIC GOOD.1.
- preface.
- public good.
- V.: LETTER TO THE ABBE RAYNAL.1
- introduction.
- letter to the abbe raynal.
- Postscript.
- VI.: DISSERTATIONS on government; the affairs of the bank; and paper money.
- preface.
- dissertations on government, etc.
- VII.: THE SOCIETY FOR POLITICAL INQUIRIES.1.
- laws and regulations.
- VIII.: PROSPECTS ON THE RUBICON: or an investigation into the causes and consequences of the politics to be agitated at the next meeting of parliament.1
- preface.
- publisher's note to the english edition of 1793.
- prospects on the rubicon.
- IX.: SPECIFICATION OF THOMAS PAINE. A.D. 1788....N° 1667. constructing arches, vaulted roofs, and ceilings.
- LETTER TO JEFFERSON IN PARIS.
- XI.: THOMAS PAINE'S ANSWER TO FOUR QUESTIONS ON THE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE POWERS.
- first question.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- XII.: ADDRESS AND DECLARATION.
- XIII.: RIGHTS OF MAN.
- editor's introduction.
- RIGHTS OF MAN being an answer to mr. burke's attack on the french revolution
- GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
- PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.
- paine's preface to the french edition.1
- rights of man.
- declaration of the rights of man and of citizens,
- observations on the declaration of rights.
- miscellaneous chapter.
- conclusion.
- XIV.: RIGHTS OF MAN. PART SECOND, COMBINING PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE.
- french translator's preface. (1792.)
- to m. de la fayette.
- preface.
- RIGHTS OF MAN. part II
- introduction.
- chapter I.: of society and civilisation.
- chapter II.: of the origin of the present old governments.
- chapter III.: of the old and new systems of government.
- chapter IV.: of constitutions.
- chapter V.: ways and means of improving the condition of europe, interspersed with miscellaneous observations.
- APPENDIX.
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