The life of Thomas Paine : mover of the "Declaration of independence;" secretary of foreign affairs under the first American Congress; members of the National convention of France; author of "Common sense," "The crisis," "Rights of man," "Age of reason," &c., &c.: the man, whose motto was, "The world is my country; to do good, my religion." Embracing practical considerations on human rights; demonstrating that man tends irrepressibly to actual freedom; and showing a liberty- aim connection in the action of the world's three great author-heroes,--Rousseau, Paine, and Comte /
by: Blanchard, Calvin, 1808-1868
Published: (1860)