Paine, Thomas

A patriot and author in the Revolutionary War, whose pamphlets, such as Common Sense and the American Crisis series, urged American independence. He took part in the French Revolution and wrote The Rights of Man to defend it against the criticisms of Edmund Burke. Paine also wrote The Age of Reason, upholding deism.

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P. Paine, Thomas, caricatured by Gillray, 154; in a caricature, 297.

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When the 18th century English dissenter Richard Price, friend of Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, warned that fawning before royalty produced "idolatry as gross and stupid as that of the ancient heathens," he aptly titled his denunciation "A Discourse on the Love of Our Country."

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PAINE, Thomas.—Rights of Man: being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution.

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PAINE, Thomas.—Letter addressed to the Addressers, on the late Proclamation.

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PAINE, Thomas.—Letter addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North-America.

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Thomas of Woodstock Thomas, the doubting apostle

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