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Author : Elliott, Allan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780919567047
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Common Sense Revolution and Other Essays about Life and the World written by Elliott, Allan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : The Capitol Net Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781587332296
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by The Capitol Net Inc. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the Following Interesting Subjects, viz.: I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession. III. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs. IV. Of the Present Ability of America, with some Miscellaneous Reflections
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 159853436X
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution written by Thomas Paine and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative collection of Thomas Paine’s essential writings on American politics and governance—including the landmark Revolutionary War pamphlet, Common Sense After a life of obscurity and failure in England, Thomas Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37. Within fourteen months he published Common Sense, the most influential pamphlet of the American Revolution, and began a career that would see him hailed and reviled in the American nation he helped create. Collected in this volume are Paine's most influential texts. In Common Sense, he sets forth an inspiring vision of an independent America as an asylum for freedom and an example of popular self-government in a world oppressed by despotism and hereditary privilege. The American Crisis, begun during “the times that try men’s souls” in 1776, is a masterpiece of popular pamphleteering in which Paine vividly reports current developments, taunts and ridicules British adversaries, and enjoins his readers to remember the immense stakes of their struggle. They are joined in this invaluable reader by a selection of Paine’s other American pamphlets and his letters to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101603720
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers, and each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-drive design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped the world. Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself from British rule and set up an independent republican government. Savagely attacking hereditary kingship and aristocratic institutions, Paine urged a new beginning for his adopted country in which personal freedom and social equality would be upheld and economic and cultural progress encouraged. His pamphlet was the first to speak directly to a mass audience—it went through fifty-six editions within a year of publication—and its assertive and often caustic style both embodied the democratic spirit he advocated, and converted thousands of citizens to the cause of American independence.
Author : Joan Campbell-Delva
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479778745
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)
Download or read book The Biography of a New Canadian Family Volume 4 written by Joan Campbell-Delva and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Happy and Informative Present: at the new Universit de Sherbrooke, Pierre had developed a four-month teaching program for clinical nurses prior to their departure to the Canadian Far North where they would be in charge of a Nursing Station. In 1973, a group of them gave me as a parting gift the French translation of The Scalpel and the Sword by Ted Allen and Sydney Gordon (Toronto, 1952); the French version was by Jean Pare, 'Docteur Bethune' (Montreal, 1973). As new Canadians, we thought it odd that the French version should take 20 years to appear on the scene. We had been in Canada for 15 years.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0375760113
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, published anonymously and just discovered to be Paine’s work; and Letter to the Abbé Raynal, Paine’s first examination of world events; as well as selections from The American Crises In 1776, America was a hotbed of enlightenment and revolution. Thomas Paine not only spurred his fellow Americans to action but soon came to symbolize the spirit of the Revolution. His elegantly persuasive pieces spoke to the hearts and minds of those fighting for freedom. He was later outlawed in Britain, jailed in France, and finally labeled an atheist upon his return to America.
Author : Sophia Rosenfeld
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674057813
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Common Sense written by Sophia Rosenfeld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Common Sense" presented the American colonists with a powerful argument for independence from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided. Paine wrote and reasoned in a style that common people understood; forgoing the philosophy and Latin references used by Enlightenment era writers, Paine structured "Common Sense" like a sermon and relied on Biblical references to make his case to the people. Historian Gordon S. Wood described "Common Sense" as, "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least. WHEREFORE, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever FORM thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expence and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest, they will then represent the first peopling of any country, or of the world. In this state of natural liberty, society will be their first thought. A thousand motives will excite them thereto, the strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same. Four or five united would be able to raise a tolerable dwelling in the midst of a wilderness, but ONE man might labour out the common period of life without accomplishing any thing; when he had felled his timber he could not remove it, nor erect it after it was removed; hunger in the mean time would urge him from his work, and every different want call him a different way. Disease, nay even misfortune would be death, for though neither might be mortal, yet either would disable him from living, and reduce him to a state in which he might rather be said to perish than to die.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781978017887
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation. It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at taverns and meeting places. In proportion to the population of the colonies at that time (2.5 million), it had the largest sale and circulation of any book published in American history. As of 2006, it remains the all-time best selling American title.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312237042
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Common Sense and Related Writings written by Thomas Paine and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-01-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the pamphlet is unique in its inclusion of selections from Paine's other writings from 1775-1776--additional essays that contextualize Common Sense and provide unusual insight on both the writer and the cause for which he wrote. The volume introduction focuses on Paine's childhood and early adult years in England, arguing for the significance of personal experience, environment, career, and religion in understanding Paine's influential political writings.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
ISBN 13 : 1541547772
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Common Sense and Other Works by Thomas Paine written by Thomas Paine and published by First Avenue Editions ™. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the Father of the American Revolution, English-American author Thomas Paine became famous for two pamphlets that inspired the colonists to fight for their independence. Common Sense, published in 1776, fostered the idea that the colonists could separate from the tyrannical rule of the British monarchy, and The American Crisis, published that same year, encouraged soldiers to fight against the British Army. Paine's later writings included The Rights of Man (1791), a series of articles defending the French Revolution and asserting that people should rise up if governments failed to protect their natural rights. His final text, The Age of Reason (1794–1796), challenged institutionalized religion and critiqued Christian theology, advocating instead for reason and scientific inquiry. This collection features unabridged editions of all four of the American revolutionary's main pamphlets and writings.
Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201665
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Revolutionary Characters written by Gordon S. Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men great?" and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Paine—is presented individually as well as collectively, but the thread that binds these portraits together is the idea of character as a lived reality. They were members of the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made men who understood that the arc of lives, as of nations, is one of moral progress.
Author : Hal May
Publisher : Contemporary Authors
ISBN 13 : 9780810319196
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Hal May and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 1986-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors®. Authors in this volume include: William Least Heat-Moon Jack London Oscar Wilde Dorothy Sayers
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523702572
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Common Sense (Original World's Classics) written by Thomas Paine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. The pamphlet explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence in clear, simple language. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation. It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at taverns and meeting places.
Author : Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Essays in Common Sense Philosophy written by Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Sterling Innovation
ISBN 13 : 9781402778674
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by Sterling Innovation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas Paine's powerful essays inspired two of the most important revolutions in history, in America and France. America's first bestseller, 'Common Sense' (1776) is a ringing denunciation of corrupt monarchies...'Rights of Man' (1791) is a fiery condemnation of a former friend's writings and a further exploration of Paine's beliefs in innovation, free thought, and democracy..."--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523702671
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Common Sense (Original Edition) written by Thomas Paine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. The pamphlet explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence in clear, simple language. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation. It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at taverns and meeting places.
