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... Sense , slap- dash , rambling , and crude , as historian Bernard Bailyn has said , is hardly explainable without explaining genius itself . " My motive and object of all my political works , beginning with Common Sense , " Paine wrote ...
... Sense , slap- dash , rambling , and crude , as historian Bernard Bailyn has said , is hardly explainable without explaining genius itself . " My motive and object of all my political works , beginning with Common Sense , " Paine wrote ...
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... Sense in October 1775 at Franklin's suggestion . Benjamin Rush and David Rittenhouse saw the first draft , but the au- thor is rightfully credited with the overall scheme . Published anonymously , with Rush's title , rather than Paine's ...
... Sense in October 1775 at Franklin's suggestion . Benjamin Rush and David Rittenhouse saw the first draft , but the au- thor is rightfully credited with the overall scheme . Published anonymously , with Rush's title , rather than Paine's ...
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... Sense , 1776 . The American Crisis , 1776-1783 . Rights of Man : Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's At- tack on the French Revolution , 1791-1792 . The Age of Reason : Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology , 1794-1796 ...
... Sense , 1776 . The American Crisis , 1776-1783 . Rights of Man : Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's At- tack on the French Revolution , 1791-1792 . The Age of Reason : Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology , 1794-1796 ...
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