In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

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Hayek conceded that the national labels did not exactly correspond to those belonging to each tradition: Hayek saw the Frenchmen Montesquieu, Constant and Tocqueville as belonging to the " British tradition " and the British Thomas Hobbes, Priestley, Richard Price and Thomas Paine as belonging to the " French tradition ".

who wrote in a letter to Thomas Paine on the construction of an arch for a bridge:

Others such as Thomas Paine were agnostic about the immortality of the soul:

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and Thomas Paine ( who published The Age of Reason, a treatise that helped to popularize deism throughout the USA and Europe ).

In 1993, Bob Johnson established the first Deist organization since the days of Thomas Paine and Elihu Palmer with the World Union of Deists.

* 1737 – Thomas Paine, English radical liberal philosopher, American revolutionary ( d. 1809 )

These were followed by developments in philosophy of human rights by philosophers such as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill and G. W. F.

* 1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American author and pamphleteer ( b. 1737 )

American novelist James Fennimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans and other novels reflect republican and egalitarian ideals present alike in Rousseau, Thomas Paine, and also in English Romantic primitivism.

As ambassador, Monroe secured the release of Thomas Paine in revolutionary France after his arrest for opposition to the execution of Louis XVI.

* 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.

Others, such as William Hazlitt and Thomas Paine, remained idealistic about the Revolution.

In the United States, many leftists, social liberals, progressives and trade unionists were influenced by the works of Thomas Paine, who introduced the concept of asset-based egalitarianism, which theorises that social equality is possible by a redistribution of resources.

Feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft was influenced by the radical thinker Thomas Paine.

In the late 18th century the deist Thomas Paine commented at length on Moses ' Laws in The Age of Reason, and gave his view that " the character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined ", giving the story at as an example.

* 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes " African Slavery in America ", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

Thomas Paine wrote the definitive book on the natural religion of Deism, The Age of Reason ( 1794 – 1807 ).

Expanded on the philosophy of Thomas Paine by instrumenting republicanism in the United States.

* Thomas Paine: Enlightenment writer who defended liberal democracy, the American Revolution, and French Revolution in Common Sense and The Rights of Man.

Deism was a religious philosophy in common currency in colonial times, and some Founding Fathers ( most notably Thomas Paine, who was an explicit proponent of it, and Benjamin Franklin, who spoke of it in his Autobiography ) are identified more or less with this system.

The Angel, Islington was formerly a coaching inn, the first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is believed to have written much of The Rights of Man.

Francis Hopkinson was born at Philadelphia in 1737, the son of Thomas Hopkinson and Mary Johnson.

" The Lifelong Education of Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ): Some Reflections upon His Acquaintance among Books.

* June 8 – Thomas Paine, American revolutionary writer ( b. 1737 )

Among the many notable former residents of Lewes is Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ), who was employed as an excise officer in the town for a time from 1768 to 1774 when he emigrated to the American colonies.

Examples of his history pictures are The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan, executed in 1736 – 1737 for St Bartholomew's Hospital ; Moses brought before Pharaoh's Daughter, painted for the Foundling Hospital ( 1747, formerly at the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now in the Foundling Museum ); Paul before Felix ( 1748 ) at Lincoln's Inn ; and his altarpiece for St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol ( 1756 ).

Thomas Cockey ( 1676 – 1737 ) settled in Limestone Valley in 1725 at Taylor's Hall ( an area now just north of Padonia Road and east of Interstate 83 ).

* Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ), American and French Revolution inspiration and author of many works, including " Common Sense " and " The Rights of Man ".

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

In 1737, Stephanus Umbenhauer immigrated from Bern, Switzerland, and purchased from Thomas Penn.

Nonetheless, he was still under contract in London in the summer of 1737 when he received a summons, via Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, Secretary of the Spanish Embassy there, to visit the Spanish court.

* In England, Richard Carlile ( 1790 – 1843 ) is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ).

Toland's edition, with numerous substantial additions by Thomas Birch, appeared first in Dublin in 1737 and 1758, and then in England in 1747 and 1771.

In addition to the estates he inherited, Temple gained a considerable fortune by his marriage in 1737 with Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Chambers of Hanworth, Middlesex ; a volume of poems by her was printed at the Strawberry Hill Press in 1764.

Two members of the Pitt family held the title of Baron Camelford: Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford ( 1737 – 1793 ) and Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford ( 1775 – 1804 ).

He married Frances, daughter of Thomas Worsley of Hovingham, on 13 July 1737, and had two sons and six daughters.

* Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald ( 1702 – 1737 )

* Thomas Reeve ( 1673 – 1737 ), British justice

* Common Sense by Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ) appears.

The earliest recorded use of the term " synarchy " is attributed to Thomas Stackhouse ( 1677 – 1752 ), an English clergyman who used the word in his New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity ( published in two folio volumes in 1737 ).

* Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 )

* Thomas Foley ( auditor of the imprests ) ( c. 1670 – 1737 ), of Stoke Edith, member of Parliament for Weobly, then Hereford, then Stafford