The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (top reads txt) 📕

this time, in England, a greater number of men acting on disinterested principles, and determined to look into the nature and practices of government themselves, and not blindly trust, as has hitherto been the case, either to government generally, or to parliaments, or to parliamentary opposition, than at any former period. Had this been done a century ago, corruption and taxation had not arrived to the height they are now at. ↩

The Life of Thomas Pain, Author of the “Rights of Men,” with a Defence of his Writings. By Francis Oldys, A.M. of the University of Pennsylvania. George Chalmers, the clerk alluded to, by this purely fictitious claim to American connection, and pretence to “Defence,” proved himself quite equal to the surreptitious action suspected by Paine. His libellous “Life” proves him well acquainted with Paine’s transactions with the first printer. See my Life of Paine, I, 330. —⁠Conway ↩

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The Rights of Man
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