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e. Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; [ 1] February 9, 1737 [ O.S. January 29, 1736] [ Note 1] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, and political philosopher. [ 2][ 3] He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start ...
The American Crisis, or simply The Crisis, [ 1] is a pamphlet series by eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution. [ 2] Thirteen numbered pamphlets were published between 1776 and 1777, with three additional pamphlets released between 1777 and 1783 ...
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish [ 1] satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories ), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, [ 2] hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
A pamphleteer is a historical term used to describe someone who creates or distributes pamphlets, unbound (therefore inexpensive) booklets intended for wide circulation.
Mercy Otis Warren. / 41.956; -70.666. Mercy Otis Warren (September 25, 1728 – October 19, 1814) was an American activist poet, playwright, and pamphleteer during the American Revolution. During the years before the Revolution, she had published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist ...
The common sense is where this comparison happens, and this must occur by comparing impressions (or symbols or markers; σημεῖον, sēmeîon, 'sign, mark') of what the specialist senses have perceived. [16] The common sense is therefore also where a type of consciousness originates, "for it makes us aware of having sensations at all". And ...
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States. On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who convened at the ...
Daniel Defoe ( / dɪˈfoʊ /; born Daniel Foe; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731) [ 1] was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. [ 2] He has been seen as one of the earliest ...