Common sense; : addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs. IV. Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflections. : [Two lines from Thomson].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 14954.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Monarchy.

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.

United States.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages, 79 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia; : Printed, and sold, by R. Bell, in Third-Street., MDCCLXXVI. [1776]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

The first edition. Attributed to Thomas Paine in the Dictionary of American biography.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania evening post for Jan. 9, 1776.

Two states noted. In the first, line 12 of title ends "some mis-"; in the second, "some". For a discussion of additional points, see: Gimbel, Richard. Thomas Paine: a bibliographical check list of Common sense.

Bookseller's advertisement, pages [80].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 14954).

Cited in:

Evans 14954

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3433

Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 222a

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