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<P 3>
PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not
_yet_ sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long
habit of not thinking a thing _wrong_, gives it a superficial appearance of
being _right_, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom.
But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling
the right of it in question, (and in matters too which might never
have been thought of, had not the sufferers been aggravated into the
inquiry,) and as the king of England hath undertaken in his _own_ _right_,
to support the Parliament in what he calls _theirs_, and as the good people
of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have
an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and
equally to reject the usurpation of _either_.
In the following sheets, the author has studiously avoided every
thing which is personal among o . . .
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README.DOC
The file COMMON.TXT contains the text of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense."
The file CRISIS.TXT contains the text of Thomas Paine's "The Crisis Papers."
EDITION
The text is based on vol. 1 of the Foner edition of Paine's writings.
The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine. Ed. Philip S. Foner.
2 Vols. New York: Citadel Press, 1945.
TEXT ERRORS
The following errors in the Foner edition have been corrected:
page 13 line 7 cotemporaries ---- contemporaries
page 28 line 26 [comma] ---------- [period]
page 84 line 4 kin -------------- kind
page 95 line 1 stuggle ---------- struggle
page 101 line 4 certainy --------- certainty
page 167 line 6 than ------------- that
page 209 line 24 publshed --------- published
SPECIAL MARKERS:
The following markers have been used in the text:
_ underscore (for marking underlined words)
# number (for marking compound proper names, e.g., George Washington)
is marked: Washington#George
0 zero . . .
