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Often appears with: english descent · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · trade, markets, and merchants · reconciliation · peace with europe · parish divisions · local prejudice · france and spain · diplomacy and embassies · commerce · challenge to reconciliation · brotherhood among europeans
Usually: argument (1) · exhortation (1) · skepticism (1)
Paine claims a free America can rely on commerce for European peace because Europe benefits from America as a free port, and he challenges reconciliation advocates to name any advantage of union with Great Britain.
and sixty miles (the extent of England) and carry our friendship on a larger scale; we claim brotherhood with every European christian, and triumph in the generosity of the sentiment. It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradations we surmount the force of local prejudice, as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world. A man born in any town in England divided into parishes, will naturally associate most with h…