O! ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her... The political works of Thomas Paine - Page 161by Thomas Paine - 1826 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Paine - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled...fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind. IV. Of the Present Ability of America, with some Miscellaneous Reflections I have never met a man either... | |
| Eric Foner - History - 2000 - 472 pages
...lotta patriottica (Chicago Historical Society; American Antiquarian Society). Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her as a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in... | |
| Catherine Coulter - Fiction - 2000 - 420 pages
...common, I believe. As to the sense of it, Paine has perfected, I grant you, the grandiose style." " 'O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind!' " Mr. Beatty rubbed his plump hands together. "It has a ring to it. Unlike our squalid little island... | |
| Brad Herzog - History - 2001 - 420 pages
...been read by as much as a fifth of the colonial population. "Freedom," he wrote, "hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled...fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind." Freedom is escape. Liberty was the buzzword of the Revolution, from Patrick Henrys "Give me liberty... | |
| Willi Paul Adams - History - 2001 - 406 pages
...meet the threat: "Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled...receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind."2 The idea of an asylum for liberty was not new, either in the colonies or in Europe. We find... | |
| James W. Fraser - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 390 pages
...oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been haunted round the globe....fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind. :" With this appeal to hope tor the future, Paine rallied the inhabitants of his new home. In one of... | |
| Brian McCartin - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 116 pages
...tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled...fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind." With these words, Thomas Paine offered his vision of America to the colonists. For more than two centuries,... | |
| John Slade - United States - 2002 - 740 pages
...tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled...fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind. " What man or woman among us could not respond when Thomas Paine told us, "The birthday of a new world... | |
| Neil A. Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 386 pages
...tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled...fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind. IH 1 *"^~ "^ New View of Society, Or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human 1 Q 1 A... | |
| Norman K. Risjord - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 460 pages
...tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled...fugitive and prepare in time an asylum for mankind. Here in unforgettable prose was the sense of mission, the promise of destiny, so necessary to every... | |
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