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Rights of man. Part the second. Combining principle and practice. By Thomas Paine, secretary for foreign affairs to Congress in the American war, and author of the work entitled common sense; and the first part of the rights of man.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: 1792- Books
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Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. ... A new edition, with several additions ... To which is added an appendix, together with an address to the people called Quakers. ...
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: 1776- Books
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Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on American taxation, April 19, 1774.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Select letters on the trade and government of America; and the principles of law and polity, applied to the American colonies. Written by Governor Bernard, at Boston, In the Years 1763, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
Bernard, Francis, Sir, 1712-1779.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects: 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. A new edition, with several additions in the Body of the Work. To which is added, an appendix; together with an address to the people called Quakers. N. B. The New Edition here given increases the Work upwards of One-Third. By Thomas Paine, Secretary to the Committee for Foreign Affairs to Congress, during the American War, and Author of The Rights of Man, and a Letter to the Abbe Raynal.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on moving his resolutions for conciliation with the colonies, March 22, 1775.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects: 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. By Thomas Paine, Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Congress during the American War, and Author of ̀̀the Rights of Man,'' and ̀̀a Letter to the Abbe Raynal.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: 1792- Books
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Remarks on Dr. Price's observations on the nature of civil liberty, &c.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A letter to Lord Chatham, concerning the present war of Great Britain against America; Reviewing Candidly and Impartially Its unhappy Cause and Consequence; and wherein the doctrine of Sir William Blackstone, As Explained In his celebrated Commentaries on the Laws of England, is opposed to ministerial tyranny, and held up in favor of America. With Some Thoughts on Government. By a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Dawes, M. (Manasseh), -1829.Date: [1776]- Books
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An appeal to the justice and interests of the people of Great Britain, in the present disputes with America. By an old Member of Parliament.
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVI [1776]- Books
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American independence the interest and glory of Great-Britain. A new edition. To which is added, a copious appendix, containing two additional Letters to the Legislature; a letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; controverting his Principles of American Government. And a postscript, containing new Arguments on the Subject; A Draught for a Bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for restoring Peace and Harmony between Great-Britain and British America, and for perpetuating the same: Together with The essential Materials for a proposed Grand British League and Confederacy, to be entered into by Great-Britain and all the States of British America. The whole of which shews, beyond Denial or Doubt, that by granting the Colonists an unrestrained civil Freedom and Legislative Independence, we may most effectually secure their future Commercial Dependence upon, and consequently shall best promote the Interest and support the Glory of, Great-Britain. It is not to be hoped, in the corrupt State of human Nature, that any Nation will be subject to another, any longer than it finds its own Account in it, and cannot help itself. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * No Creatures suck the Teats of their Dams longer than they can draw Milk from them, or can provide themselves with better Food; nor will any Country continue their Subjection to another, only because their great Grand-Mothers were acquainted. This is the Course of human Affairs, and all wise States will always have it before their Eyes. Trenchard on Plantations and Colonies, in Cato's Letters, No. 106. Anno 1722.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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History of the colonization of the free states of antiquity, applied to the Present Contest between Great Britain and her American Colonies. With Reflections concerning the future Settlement of these Colonies.
Barron, William, -1803.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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A letter addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the affairs [sic] of North America; In which the mistakes in the Abbe's account of the revolution of America are corrected and cleared up. By Thomas Paine, secretary for foreign affairs to Congress, during the American war, and author of Common sense, and the Rights of man.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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Observations on the American Revolution, published according to a resolution of Congress, by their committee. For the consideration of those who are desirous of comparing the conduct of the opposed parties, and the several consequences which have flowed from it.
United States. Continental Congress.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Understanding the American Revolution : issues and actors / Jack P. Greene.
Greene, Jack PDate: [1995], ©1995- Books
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Journal of the proceedings of the Congress, held at Philadelphia, September 5th, 1774. Containing, the Bill of Rights; ... Published by order of the Congress. ...
United States. Continental Congress.Date: 1775- Books
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Considerations on the present state of public affairs, and the means of raising the necessary supplies. By William Pulteney, Esq.
Pulteney, William.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Common sense; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. ... A new edition, with several additions in the body of the work. ...
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: 1776- Books
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Cui bono? Ou examen: quels avantages les Anglois ou les Américains, les François, les Espagnols ou les Hollandois, retireront-ils des plus grandes victoires, ou des plus grands succès dans la guerre actuelle? en forme de lettres adressées à monsieur necker, ci-devant contrl̥eur général des finances de France. Par Josias Tucker, docteur en théologie, doyen de Glocester. Traduit de l'Anglois.
Tucker, Josiah, 1712-1799.Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The present hour.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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Discours de Son Excellence Monsieur Jean Hancock, President du Congrès de Philadelphie.
Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Political empiricism: A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley.
Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Rudiments of law and government, deduced from the law of nature; particularly addressed to the people of South-Carolina, but composed on principles applicable to all mankind. [Two lines in Latin from Horace]
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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An address to the committee of the county of York, on the state of public affairs. By David Hartley, Esq; Second edition. To which is added, the address of the Committee of association for the county of York, to the electors of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs within the Kingdom of Great-Britain, agreed upon at their meetings, held on the 3d and 4th of January, 1781, at York.
Hartley, David, approximately 1731-1813.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A translation of the Memorial to the sovereigns of Europe upon the present state of affairs, between the Old and the New World, into common sense and intelligible English.
Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]