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Thomas Paine

 

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Thomas Paine : The Age of Reason

'Uriah Plant, a wheelwright's son, affirmed that "My uncertainty about the truth of religion not only increased my sense of its importance... but gave me a habit of thinking, a love of reading, and a desire after knowledge"... he organized a discussion group devoted to religion and, over six years spent "only" ?21 10s. 9d. on books, mostly secondhand. He fearlessly read across the spectrum of theological opinion, including The Age of Reason'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Uriah Plant      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : 

Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "...I have read Paine, and Valney, and Holyoake, those infidel writers, and have also read the works of Bulwer, Dickens and numbers of others..."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Age of Reason

In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I had read and cheap editions were in my possession; but here was one which I had not seen, namely, "the Age of Reason Part 1". I read it with delight.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : [unknown -Rights of Man?]

'[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican view of history. During the First World War, when the headmaster read aloud rosy dispatches from the Daily Chronicle, "It struck me that if ever the British had to go backwards they wouldn't say it was a retreat, it was a strategic withdrawal...".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Jim Flowers      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : The Rights of Man

[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason") and radical sexual politics (Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" and James Lawrence's anti-marriage utopia, "The Empire of the Nairs").'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Westbrook      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : The Age of Reason

[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason") and radical sexual politics (Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" and James Lawrence's anti-marriage utopia, "The Empire of the Nairs").'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Westbrook      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Rights of man

'On 9 April 1792 Anna Margaretta Larpent rose at 7.30, a little earlier than her usual, "spent some time", as she described it, '"n self examination", and then read two chapters of that blistering critique of the British constitution, Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man", before sitting down to breakfast.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Age of Reason

?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Man". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and his other theological works, but they made not the least alterations in his religious opinions.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Daniel Bamford      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : The Rights of Man

?? the shining events in Paris and the newer literature that began to be issued saw the young men of my age wild with excitement and enthusiasm. I had previously read the "Rights of Man" and other political works of Thomas Paine, which had seduced me from bed at five o?clock for many mornings in succession.?

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man

?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and his other theological works, but they made not the least alterations in his religious opinions.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Daniel Bamford      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man

'Paine's "Rights of Man, or Answer to Burke" being now lately come out & much talked of, we got it in our society and on Monday the 25th. I began reading it, but was much disgusted with the author's treason, impudence and scurrility.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : The Age of Reason

'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Paine's "Age of Reason", but remained unconvinced [by radicalism and religious scepticism] until a prolonged period of family poverty and ill-health finally destroyed what was left of his faith'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Gutteridge      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man; being an answer to Burke's attack on the French Revolution

'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she reads the Italian'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : The Rights of Man

'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, he "continued reading for half an hour", the bookseller's son remembered'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: King George III      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man, The

'S. reads Rights of man.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : The American Crisis

'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during the American War.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Thomas Paine : Common Sense

'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during the American War.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : The American Crisis

'Tuesday February 1st. [...] Read Paine [...] In Paine I find an account of the English cruelties in America and India'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Thomas Paine : works

'Wednesday Feb. 2nd. [...] Read Paine's Works.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Unknown

  

Thomas Paine : The American Crisis

'Friday Feb. 4th Read Paine [goes on to make detailed notes of issues concerning the American War of Independence, based on The American Crisis no.10] [...] Walk with Laurette on the Argine -- Finish Paine's Crisis -- The last number which congratulates the Americans on the conclusion of the War is fine'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Thomas Paine : Letter to the Abbe Raynal

'Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [makes detailed notes on this text].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Unknown

  

Thomas Paine : Letter to the Abbe Raynal

'Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedingly -- it is truly cosmopolitan -- Finish the travels before the Flood.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Unknown

  

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man (Part 1)

'Tuesday Feb. 8th. Read Paine's Rights of Man. 'Wednesday Feb 9th. [...] Read Rights of Man first part -- 'Thursday Feb. 10th [...] Finish the first part of Rights of Man.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man (Part 2)

'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man

'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : The Age of Reason

'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication. [...] 'Tuesday Feb. [...] 15th. [...] Finish 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason and begin the second. [...] 'Thursday Feb. 17th. [...] Finish the 2nd part of Paine's Age of Reason.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Common Sense

'Read Common Sense'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Letter addressed to the Abbi Raynal on the Affairs of North America

'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology

'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology

'Read Age of Reason'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology

'Finish the Age of Reason'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine : Rights of Man, The

'Read Rights of Man'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Thomas Paine  : The Age of Reason

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Print: Book

 

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