The Life of Thomas Paine With a History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America, France, and England (Complete)
By Moncure Daniel Conway
- Release Date: 2012-04-01
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Description
At Hornsey, England, I saw a small square mahogany table, bearing at its centre the following words: "This Plate is inscribed by Thos. Clio Rickman in Remembrance of his dear friend Thomas Paine, who on this table in the year 1792 wrote several of his invaluable Works." The works written by Paine in Rickman's house were the second part of "The Rights of Man," and "A Letter to the Addressers." Of these two books vast numbers were circulated, and though the government prosecuted them, they probably contributed largely to make political progress in England evolutionary instead of revolutionary.
