. The life and writings of Thomas Paine : containing a biography. lo Trr/:iT airr ho o/r>^?^^ THOMAS PAINE -not stifle the public declaration, _n, and avowetl opinions,Mir principles, and ^^v se our senti-. y embrace the int i happiness reat body of the nation of which we areAs to riots and tunrnlts, let those an-them, who, by wilful lesentations,a\or to excite and promo or who seekio stun the sense of the ? lose thegreat cause r y--: of amisSffSrn^QWING OF THE TENTH OFciple- ^^-^ - THERMIDOR, 1794 notl]?^^^^^^^^^^ f^^^^ *^^ Original Painti/ng by Etienne Lucien Melingue ^ i pleadmg thei; ^
. The life and writings of Thomas Paine : containing a biography. lo Trr/:iT airr ho o/r>^?^^ THOMAS PAINE -not stifle the public declaration, _n, and avowetl opinions,Mir principles, and ^^v se our senti-. y embrace the int i happiness reat body of the nation of which we areAs to riots and tunrnlts, let those an-them, who, by wilful lesentations,a\or to excite and promo or who seekio stun the sense of the ? lose thegreat cause r y--: of amisSffSrn^QWING OF THE TENTH OFciple- ^^-^ - THERMIDOR, 1794 notl]?^^^^^^^^^^ f^^^^ *^^ Original Painti/ng by Etienne Lucien Melingue ^ i pleadmg thei; ^ t proud oppression, for we mr side. We say, and we i t, that the French Revolution opens to the world an opportunity inh all good citizens must rejoice—that of pro-vig the general happiness of man. And that it aiortover offers to this country in particular, ;H; H ;>rtimity of reducing our < s. ihese are our objects, and .. s^.,: . -Mie them. J. Ho Ji.,N ; .*in. 88. PRIVATE LETTERS TO JEFFERSON Paeis, April 20, ^iCY Dear Friend—The gentleman (Dr.•^-^ Romer) to whom I intrust this letter, isan intimate acquaintance of Lavater; but I havenot had the opportunity of seeing him, as he hadset off for Havre prior to my writing this letter,which I forward to him under cover from one ofhis friends, who is also an acquaintance of mine. We are now in an extraordinary crisis, and itis not altogether without some considerable faultshere. Dumouriez, partly from having no fixedprinciples of his own, and partly from the con-tinual persecution of the Jacobins, who act with-out either prudence or morality, has gone off tothe enemy, and taken a considerable part of thearmy with him. The expedition to Holland hastotally failed, and all Brabant is again in thehands of the Austrians. You may suppose the consternation whichsuch a sudden reverse of fortune has occasioned,but it has been without commotion. Dumouriezthreatened to be in Paris in three weeks. It i
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