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Paine

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Paine  (pn), Robert Treat 1731-1814.
American Revolutionary leader and jurist. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, he later served as a justice of the Massachusetts supreme court (1790-1804).

Paine, Thomas 1737-1809.
British-born American writer and Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense (1776) arguing for American independence from Britain. In England he published The Rights of Man (1791-1792), a defense of the French Revolution.

Paine [peɪn]
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(Biographies / Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) M, USnational of birth: English, WRITING: pamphleteer) Thomas. 1737-1809, American political pamphleteer, born in England. His works include the pamphlets Common Sense (1776) and Crisis (1776-83), supporting the American colonists' fight for independence; The Rights of Man (1791-92), a justification of the French Revolution; and The Age of Reason (1794-96), a defence of deism
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Noun1.PainePaine - American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814)
2.PainePaine - American Revolutionary leader and pamphleteer (born in England) who supported the American colonist's fight for independence and supported the French Revolution (1737-1809)


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Paine was all right, too, because he used to come here.
Mean while in other parts like deeds deservd Memorial, where the might of GABRIEL fought, And with fierce Ensignes pierc'd the deep array Of MOLOC furious King, who him defi'd, And at his Chariot wheeles to drag him bound Threatn'd, nor from the Holie One of Heav'n Refrein'd his tongue blasphemous; but anon Down clov'n to the waste, with shatterd Armes And uncouth paine fled bellowing.
Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
 
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