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Often appears with: continental union · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · slavery · revolution and the fall of states · republican virtue · reconciliation · posterity · pelham · king’s power · fate, destiny, and necessity · england and america · arms
Usually: argument (1) · reconciliation (1) · the fall of the great (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1)
Paine dismisses reconciliation after Britain’s attacks, warns against trusting intentions like Pelham’s “last my time,” and stresses that the colonies must act as seeds of continental union for posterity.
easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues. Why is the constitution of England sickly, but because monarchy hath poisoned the republic, the crown hath engrossed the commons? In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred …