Easton Press COMMON SENSE, Thomas Paine, 1994, Literature, Historical, Leather
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Easton Press COMMON SENSE, Thomas Paine, 1994, Literature, Historical, Leather :
$24.99
Easton Press
Norwalk, Connecticut
Edition Bound in Genuine Leather
Common Sense
By
Thomas Paine
On the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution
Together With
The American Crisis
1776-1783
Introduction by W. Sitt Robinson
COLLECTOR\'S EDITION
About the book....
Though he didn\'t emigrate from England to the colonies until 1774, just a few months before the Revolutionary War began, Thomas Paine had an enormous impact on that war & the new nation that emerged from it.
Common Sense, the instantly popular pamphlet he published in January 1776, argued that the goal of the struggle against the British should be not simply tax reform, as many were calling for, but complete independence. His rousing, radical voice was balanced by the equally independence-minded but more measured tones of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence later that year.
In the winter of 1776, the American War of Independence, which had been declared only a few months before, was in trouble. British troops had quickly advanced through New York and New Jersey to crush the rebellion, and the Continental army was in retreat and on the verge of disintegration. At the end of that year, on December 23, Thomas Paine, who had previously inspired the revolutionary cause with his stirring pamphlet Common Sense, published the first of a new series of essays aptly titled The Crisis.Paine had a gift for memorable phrasing and the first words of The Crisis soon became famous:
\"These are the times that try men\'s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: \'tis dearness only that gives every thing its value.\"
General Washington found the writing so uplifting that later, during the bleak winter of 1777 at Valley Forge, he ordered Paine\'s essay to be read by all the troops.
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Easton Press COMMON SENSE, Thomas Paine, 1994, Literature, Historical, Leather :
$24.99