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After American independence had been won, Paine played no part in the establishment of the new republic. Instead, he busied himself trying to invent a smokeless candle and devising an iron bridge.
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Thetford in Norfolk
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exciseman
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Benjamin Franklin who helped him to emigrate to America in October 1774.
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journalist
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revolutionary propagandist
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short pamphlet, Common Sense
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Congress eventually rewarded him $3000
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Pennsylvania granted him £500 in cash
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gave him a confiscated Loyalist farm at New Rochelle
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orced to leave Britain in September 1792
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incarcerated
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The Age of Reason
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irtually an outcast
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20 Nov 12
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His father, Joseph, was a poor Quaker corset maker who tried to provide his son with an education at the local grammar school but eventually was forced to apprentice him to his trade.
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His father, Joseph
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After a short time at sea, Paine returned to his trade in Kent, but then served as an exciseman in Lincolnshire, followed by a stint as a school teacher in London, before he again settled down in 1768 as an excise officer in Lewes in East Sussex.
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six years he combined his duties as excise officer with managing a small shop.
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1760,
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first wife,
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Mary Lambert, died in early labor and their child did not survive. In 1771 he married again. Neither marriage brought Paine much in the way of happiness. He was legally separated
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from his second wife in 1774, just as he was about to embark for the American colonies.
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05 Nov 12
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he eventually resumed work as a revolutionary propagandist in the 1790s. Burke's resistance to the French Revolution inspired Paine to write his most influential work, the Rights of Man (Part I in 1791, Part II in 1792).
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In Part I, Paine urged political rights for all men because of their natural equality in the sight of God.
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Part II was even more radical for Paine argued for a whole program of social legislation to deal with the shocking condition of the poor.
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Letter Addressed to the Addressers of the Late Proclamation (London, 1792)
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The Age of Reason (London and Boston, 1794-95)
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nature was the only form of divine revelation, for God had clearly established a uniform, immutable and eternal order throughout creation.
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18 Jan 12
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Thomas Paine, 1737-1809
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His father, Joseph, was a poor Quaker corset maker who tried to provide his son with an education at the local grammar school but eventually was forced to apprentice him to his trade
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After a short time at sea, Paine returned to his trade in Kent, but then served as an exciseman in Lincolnshire, followed by a stint as a school teacher in London, before he again settled down in 1768 as an excise offic
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er in Lewes in East Sussex. For the next six years he combined his duties as excise officer with managing a small shop. His first wife had died in 1760, within a year of their marriage. In 1771 he married again. Both marriages w
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ere childless and neither brought Paine
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much in the way of happiness. He was legally separated from his second wife in 1774, just as he was about to embark for the American colonies.
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London, 1772), and had devoted too much time campaigning in London on behalf of the
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He published the pamphlet The Case of the Officers of Excise (
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excise officers. In London he met Benjamin Franklin who helped him to emigrate to America in October 1774.
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Thus on January 10, 1776, he published a short pamphlet, Common Sense, which immediately established his reputation as a revolutionary
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he had only been in America less than a year, Paine committed himself to the cause of American independence.
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propagandist.
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Paine was convinced that the American Revolution was a crusade for a superior political system and that America was ultimately unconquerable. He did as much as any writer could to encourage resistance and to inspire faith in the Continental Army. I essays published in the Pennsylvania Journal under the heading "Crisis," Paine attacked the faint-hearted, campaigned for a more efficient federal and state tax system to meet the costs of war, and encouraged the belief that Britain would eventually recognize American independence.
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Congress eventually rewarded him $3000. Pennsylvania granted him ?00 in cash, while New York proved more generous and gave him a confiscated Loyalist farm at New Rochelle.
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After American independence had been won, Paine played no part in the establishment of the new republic. Instead, he busied himself trying to invent a smokeless candle and devising an iron bridge.
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Restless because he was no longer at the center of affairs, Paine left for Europe in 1787.
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Although he spent much of his time trying to find financial support for his iron bridge, he eventually resumed work as a revolutionary propagandist in the 1790s.
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Paine immediately immersed himself in French affairs for the next ten years although he still hoped to see a revolution in Britain. In his Letter Addressed to the Addressers of the Late Proclamation (London, 1792), he rejected the policy of appealing to parliament for reform and instead urged British radicals to call a national convention to establish a republican form of government.
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aine's political influence was greatest in England. In intellectual terms, his Rights of Man was his greatest political work and was certainly the best-selling radical political tract in late 18th century England.
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efore Paine, British radicals sought a reform of Parliament which would grant to all men the vote for members of the House of Commons.
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Abigail SmithThis site includes an in depth explanation of Thomas Paine and his life story.
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