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“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
-- Thomas Paine
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Paine the engineer -- the iron-arch bridge, the smokeless candle, the planing machine, and the late letters on natural philosophy.
3 works · All topics · All works
| Work | Volume | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Private Letters to Jefferson 1788-1789. | Vol. 3 | 1789 |
| Plan of a Declaration of the Natural, Civil, and Political Rights of Man Submitted to the Convention's Constitutional Committee, 1793. | Vol. 3 | 1793 |
| Observations On the construction and operation of navies. | Vol. 3 | 1796 |