Common Sense And Plain Truth Common Sense Addressed To The Inhabitants Of America A New Edition With Several Additions Etc By Thomas Paine Plain Truth Addressed To The Inhabitants Of America Containing Remarks On A Late Pamphlet Intitled Common Sense Written By Candidus Ie Dr William Smith Dd

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Huntington Library N047829 Anonymous. By Thomas Paine. Edition statement from half-title: 'Common sense, and Plain truth. The third edition, corrected'. 'Plain truth: addressed to the inhabitants of America. .. Written by Candidus' has separate titlepage with no edition statement, separate pagination and register, and is by James Chalmers. Last line, p.1 of 'Introduction' has "e" of "fire" placed correctly; pagination of p.23 is upside down in all Gimbel variants. [London]: Philadelphia, printed; London, re-printed, for J. Almon, 1776. [6],54;[4],47, [1]p.; 8°

The pamphlet was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation. Written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776, the pamphlet persuasively argues for the colonial people to fight for independence from Great Britain and to form an egalitarian government.

When Common Sense was published in January 1776, it sold, by some estimates, a stunning 150,000 copies in the colonies. What exactly made this pamphlet so appealing? This is a question not only about the state of mind of Paine’s audience, but also about the role of public opinion and debate, the function of the press, and the shape of political culture in the colonies. This Broadview edition of Paine’s famous pamphlet attempts to reconstruct the context in which it appeared and to recapture the energy and passion of the dispute over the political future of the British colonies in North America. Included along with the text of Common Sense are some of the contemporary arguments for and against the Revolution by John Dickinson, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson; materials from the debate that followed the pamphlet’s publication showing the difficulty of the choices facing the colonists; the Declaration of Independence; and the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T005809 Anonymous. By Thomas Paine. Half-title: 'Common sense and Plain truth'; advertisement for 'Plain truth' on verso, "state" in last line printed on extreme left. This issue has hiatuses on the first page of the Introduction, in some copies these have been [London]: Philadelphia, printed; London, re-printed, for J. Almon, 1776. [6],54;[4],47, [1]p.; 8°

Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Paine wrote it with editorial feedback from Benjamin Rush, who came up with the title. The document denounced British rule and, through its immense popularity, contributed to stimulating the American Revolution. The second edition was published soon thereafter. A third edition, with an accounting of the worth of the British navy, an expanded appendix, and a response to criticism by the Quakers, was published on February 14, 1776