Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern NationsA fresh new look at the Enlightenment intellectual who became the most controversial of America's founding fathers Despite his being a founder of both the United States and the French Republic, the creator of the phrase "United States of America," and the author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine is the least well known of America's founding fathers. This edifying biography by Craig Nelson traces Paine's path from his years as a London mechanic, through his emergence as the voice of revolutionary fervor on two continents, to his final days in the throes of dementia. By acquainting us as never before with this complex and combative genius, Nelson rescues a giant from obscurity-and gives us a fascinating work of history. |
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... offering any number of positions that did not require fluency in Latin or fluidity in sewing . Just after those first Saxony battles in the summer of '56 , perhaps additionally inspired by the recently popular ad- ventures of Robinson ...
... offering any number of positions that did not require fluency in Latin or fluidity in sewing . Just after those first Saxony battles in the summer of '56 , perhaps additionally inspired by the recently popular ad- ventures of Robinson ...
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... offered more than a few compelling reasons to revolt . For every maquillage - bearing Versailles minion , there was an abrasive , mono- chromatic Puritan heretic , and nowhere can this duality be seen more em- phatically than in the ...
... offered more than a few compelling reasons to revolt . For every maquillage - bearing Versailles minion , there was an abrasive , mono- chromatic Puritan heretic , and nowhere can this duality be seen more em- phatically than in the ...
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... offered up at the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem ( Bedlam ) , followed by dinner and a whore at the popular London bagnios , highly recommended as a great bargain by none other than Casanova : " A rich man can sup , bathe and sleep ...
... offered up at the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem ( Bedlam ) , followed by dinner and a whore at the popular London bagnios , highly recommended as a great bargain by none other than Casanova : " A rich man can sup , bathe and sleep ...
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... offered a primer to those hop- ing to join this new global movement : Enlightenment is man's leaving his self - caused immaturity . Im- maturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guid- ance of another ...
... offered a primer to those hop- ing to join this new global movement : Enlightenment is man's leaving his self - caused immaturity . Im- maturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guid- ance of another ...
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... offering beds for them to die in ) were constructed . Stores stopped being addendums to workshops and became the ... offered displays " not only for the inspection and entertainment of the learned and the curious , but for the ...
... offering beds for them to die in ) were constructed . Stores stopped being addendums to workshops and became the ... offered displays " not only for the inspection and entertainment of the learned and the curious , but for the ...
Contents
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Pragmatic Utopians | 51 |
Hell Is Not Easily Conquered | 101 |
The Silas Deane Affair | 126 |
The Missionary Bereft of His Mission | 146 |
Droits de lHomme ou Droits du Seigneur? | 181 |
The Sovereigns Among Us | 235 |
The Religion of Science | 260 |
The Perfidious Mr Morris | 273 |
Utopian Dissolves | 305 |
Provenance | 326 |
Notes | 341 |
Sources | 365 |
Index | 377 |
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