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The trial of Thomas Paine for seditious libel was held on 18 December 1792 in response to his publication of the second part of the Rights of Man. The government of William Pitt , worried by the possibility that the French Revolution might spread to England, had begun suppressing works that espoused radical philosophies.
New Rochelle is also the original site of Thomas Paine's Cottage, which along with a 320-acre (130 ha) farm were presented to Paine in 1784 by act of the New York State Legislature for his services in the American Revolution. [155] The same site is the home of the Thomas Paine Memorial Museum. [156]
Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition Archived 10 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine World Union of Deists, 2009. ISBN 978-0-939040-35-3; Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason. Ed. Philip Sheldon Foner. New York: Citadel Press, 1974. ISBN 0-8065-0549-4. Paine, Thomas. Thomas Paine: Collected Writings. Ed. Eric Foner. Library of ...
The Crisis series appeared in a range of publication formats, sometimes (as in the first four) as stand-alone pamphlets and sometimes in one or more newspapers. [9] In several cases, too, Paine addressed his writing to a particular audience, while in other cases he left his addressee unstated, writing implicitly to the American public (who were, of course, his actually intended audience at all ...
Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke 's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).
Thomas Paine, 1792. Agrarian Justice is the title of a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine and published in 1797, which proposed that those who possess cultivated land owe the community a ground rent, which justifies an estate tax to fund universal old-age and disability pensions and a fixed sum to be paid to all citizens upon reaching maturity.
Plain Truth stated that Thomas Paine's complaints about the British Monarchy were "invalid" and "barbaric". Plain Truth goes on denounce Common Sense ' s attempt to utilise religion to attack the institution of monarchy, pithily summarising that Thomas Paine should have added "Common Sense, and blood will attend it."
A modern iteration of the club, with the same and purpose, was launched in 1987, [3] on 30 January, the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Paine. Sir Richard Jolly created The Headstrong Society at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York City in 1998.