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	Thomas Paine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paine was born on 29 January 1737, to impoverished parents: Joseph Pain, a (lapsed) Quaker, and Frances Cocke Pain, an Anglican, in Thetford, Norfolk, in eastern England.
		Paine's strength lay in his ability to present complex ideas in clear and concise form, as opposed to the more philosophical approaches of his Enlightenment contemporaries in Europe, and it was Paine who proposed the name United States of America for the new nation.
		Paine was arrested and imprisoned in December 1793.
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	Thomas Paine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Paine (29 January 1737–8 June 1809), intellectual, scholar, and idealist, is widely recognized as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
		Paine was born on 29 January 1737 to Joseph Paine, a Quaker, and Frances "Cocke" Paine, an Anglican, in Thetford, Norfolk, in eastern England.
		Paine was an enthusiatic supporter of the French Revolution, and despite being a foreigner he was elected to the National Convention, representing the district of Pas de Calais.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Thomas_Paine (1940 words)

	Thomas Paine, 1737-1809
		The radical propagandist and voice of the common man, Thomas Paine, was born in Thetford in Norfolk on January 29, 1737.
		Paine rejected Christianity, denied that the Bible was the revealed word of God, condemned many of the Old Testament stories as immoral and claimed that the Gospels were marred by discrepancies.
		Paine never established a political society or organization and was not responsible for a single reforming measure.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/paine.html (1382 words)

	Thomas Paine
		Paine clearly saw that men could not be really free, or defend the freedom they had, unless they were free to think and speak.
		Paine replied with the "Age of Reason." This book is still a power, and will be as long as the absurdities and cruelties of the creeds and the Bible have defenders.
		Paine remained in Paris until the "Reign of Terror" was ended and that of the Corsican tyrant had commenced.
	www.infidels.org /library/historical/robert_ingersoll/thomas_paine.html (5521 words)

	Paine, Thomas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paine emigrated to America in 1774, bearing letters of introduction from Benjamin Franklin, who was then in England.
		Paine's attack on English institutions led to his prosecution for treason and subsequent flight to Paris (1792).
		When Paine returned to the United States in 1802, he was practically ostracized; he died in poverty seven years later.
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	Thomas Paine
		Paine was born in Thetford, England, on Jan. 29, 1737.
		Paine died in poverty in New York City on June 8, 1809, and was buried on his farm in New Rochelle, N.Y. In 1819, William Cobbett, an English journalist, exhumed Paine's body for reburial in England, but all trace of it has since been lost.
		Paine's vast influence is due in large measure to his luminous literary style, noted for its striking metaphors, colloquial vigor, and rational directness.
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	Thomas Paine
		Thomas Paine was a Deist; he believed that the Universe was guided by natural law, that our hearts are guided by divine law -- he believed in a god who held reverence for all.
		In this book by Paine, he writes to prove that men and women deserve equal rights, that citizens should be granted the ability to choose their governors, that there is more to liberty than a nice sounding word.
		However, even though Thomas Paine lamented only slightly on his medical condition, he was still as vibrant as ever when it came to defending mercy and upholding truth.
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	Thomas Paine
		On January 29, 1737, Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England.
		Thomas didn't exactly excel at the role, getting discharged from his post twice in four years, but as an inkling of what was to come, he published The Case of the Officers of Excise (1772), arguing for a pay raise for officers.
		Paine discovered that his contributions to the American Revolution had been all but eradicated due to his religious views.
	www.ushistory.org /paine (651 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Thomas Paine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Paine was born on the twenty-nineth of January 1737 at Thetford, Norfolk in England, as a son of a Quaker.
		During this occupation Thomas Paine was an unsuccesfull man, and was twice dismissed from his post.
		In 1787 Thomas Paine left for England, innitialy to raise funds for the building of a bridge he had designed, but after the outbreak of the French Revolution he became deeply involved in it.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/B/tpaine/paine.htm (776 words)

	Thomas Paine
		Thomas Paine lived by a sword of controversy, and in the end his reputation would be blighted with it.
		Paine which struck at hereditary nobility, and which went to the destruction of monarchy and religion, and the total subversion of the established form of government.” Booksellers were harassed by the police; many would be arrested, fined or sent to prison.
		Paine argued that state bloodshed was anathema to the civil society which any democratic republic needs in order to function — if the French were going to kill their King, he reasoned, why not also send to the guillotine his ministers, their aides, the entire French nobility.
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		Paine always made it his practice to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of science, so that when he prepared to begin writing The Age of Reason he was in the position to apply all the discoveries in the field of scientific knowledge to incidents related in the Old and New Testaments.
		Paine's observations on critical issues related to the conduct of a people's war are still valuable today, and even when the discussion seems remote, the fact that it is presented in his usual clear and vigorous style makes it fascinating reading.
		Paine's writings on the French Revolution fall into two categories: replies to those who stigmatized the revolutionists as monsters determined to overthrow religion, family and all that was decent in established society, and appeals to the French people for the purpose of advancing the revolutionary cause.
	www.thomaspaine.org /contents.html (5064 words)

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		The Thomas Paine National Historical Association, founded January 29, 1884 in New York City, is among the oldest historical associations in the United States.
		In 1925, under the leadership of President William van der Weyde and Vice-President Thomas Alva Edison, the Association undertook the initiative to build a museum to house the priceless documents and artifacts of Paine's life.
		In addition to the acquisition, preservation, and conservation of documents and artifacts relating to Thomas Paine, the Association offers educational programs, public speakers, presentations, and special events that illuminate Paine's political and social philosophy and demonstrate its relevance to the issues of the day.
	www.thomaspaine.org (247 words)

	Thomas Paine (Encarta Encyclopedia Article) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paine himself had to apply to Congress for financial help, but his plea was buried by his opponents there.
		Paine's criticism of monarchical rule in Rights of Man caused an uproar in England and led the British government to charge Paine with seditious libel.
		Paine's writing was seen as a promotion of atheism, despite the fact that Paine objected only to organized religion.
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	Historic Americans: Thomas Paine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paine was one of the founders and most active members of the Society of Theophilanthropists (lovers of God and man,) which existed in Paris during and after the French Revolution.
		Paine, little nice things (as is the, practice in America) were sometimes sent to him, of which this servant, Friend Mary, was the bearer; and this was the way in which the lying cant got into the room of Mr.
		Paine's executors were Walter Morton, a lawyer of New York, and Thomas Addis Emmet, a brother of Robert Emmet, the Irish patriot.
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	Amazon.com: Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Paine's greatness lied in his ability to take the abstract ideas of the American Revolution and make them graspable by all of his time, while infusing them with the moral passion that they truly deserved.
		Paine's defense of the French Revolution in his "Rights of Man" sparked off a publication war that has yet to be matched and his "The Age of Reason" delineated the philosophical ideas that most of the founding fathers had with regard to religion (regardless of what the religious right would have you to believe).
		Paine's mistake was not believing what most of the founding fathers believed, that the "common man and woman" was not intellectual enough to handle the arguments that he (and the others) were advocating.
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	Great Thinkers: Thomas Paine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was born in England, tried his hand at a number of jobs and failed.
		"Thomas Paine's Common Sense," reflected Harvard University historian Bernard Bailyn, "is the most brilliant pamphlet written during the American Revolution, and one of the most brilliant pamphlets ever written in the English language.
		Thomas Paine National Historical Association, with information about his New Rochelle, N.Y. house.
	www.libertystory.net /LSTHINKPAINE.htm (532 words)

	American Writers: Thomas Paine
		Over 500,000 copies were quickly sold, and Paine's fiery eloquence greatly strengthened the colonists' resolve.
		In 1787 Paine returned to England, where he became involved in the debate over the French Revolution.
		The Rights of Man (1791-92), written in defense of republicanism, was seen as an attack on the monarchy and he was indicted for treason.
	www.americanwriters.org /writers/paine.asp (225 words)

	Positive Atheism's Big List of Thomas Paine Quotations
		There is scarcely any part of science, or anything in nature, which those imposters and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well Christians as Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superstition and falsehood.
		I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.
		Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/quotes/paine.htm (2724 words)

	Thomas Paine Collection at Bartleby.com
		Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
		An excise officer, he was dismissed from the service after leading (1772) agitation for higher salaries.
		He soon became involved in the clashes between England and the American colonies and published the enormously successful pamphlet Common Sense (Jan., 1776), in which he argued that the colonies had outgrown any need for English domination and should be given independence.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
	www.bartleby.com /people/Paine-Th.html (171 words)

	PAL: Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
		Thomas Paine, author of the Declaration of independence.
		Couser, Thomas G. "Autobiography as Anti-Biography: The Case of Twain vs. Paine." Autobiography Studies 3:3 (Fall 1987): 13-20.
		"Thomas Paine's Apostles: Radical Emigres and the Triumph of Jeffersonian Republicanism." William and Mary Quarterly 44.4 (Oct 1987): 661-88.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap2/paine.html (837 words)

	Thomas Paine
		When Paine wrote, the idea of examining the Bible as a text objectively, let alone critically, was unheard of.
		Paine finds many of the internal contradictions and atrocities of the Bible and lays them out with withering scorn.
		Paine demonstrates that neither the Old Testament nor the New Testament can be the Word of God.
	www.infidels.org /library/historical/thomas_paine (192 words)

	Thomas Paine - Wikiquote
		Thomas Paine (29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809) British-American political writer, theorist, and activist.
		History is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.
		For such a mongrel between pig and puppy, begotten by a wild boar on a bitch wolf, never before in any age of the world was suffered by the poltroonery of mankind, to run through such a career of mischief.
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	Paine, Thomas - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paine, Thomas - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo!
		In Dec., 1776, Paine wrote the first of a series of 16 pamphlets called The Crisis (1776—83).
		After the war he returned to his farm in New Rochelle, N.Y. In 1787 Paine went to England and while there wrote The Rights of Man (2 parts, 1791 and 1792), defending the French Revolution in reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.
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	Thomas Paine - Encyclopedia, Author, American Revolutionary, Celestial
		Thomas Paine - Encyclopedia, Author, American Revolutionary, Celestial
		Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was the American Revolutionary author who wrote a famous, sixteen pamphlet series entitled, "The American Crisis," which he signed, "Common Sense."
		It is an independent, educational project, not associated with any particular organization.
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