Without such a declaration, Paine concluded, “ he custom of all courts is against us, and will be so, until, by an independence, we take rank with other nations .”

Later, Twain seemed to reverse his stance towards Eddy as Paine quoted Twain as saying: "... Christian Science is humanity's boon.

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.

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.

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.

In his two part work The Age of Reason, the American revolutionary Thomas Paine wrote, " The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing ; it is founded on nothing ; it rests on no principles ; it proceeds by no authorities ; it has no data ; it can demonstrate nothing ; and it admits of no conclusion.

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The Age of Reason ; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, that challenges institutionalized religion and challenges the legitimacy of the Bible, the central sacred text of Christianity.

Paine rejects prophecies and miracles, writing: " it is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other, and consequently they are not obliged to believe it ".

Urging his readers to employ reason rather than to rely on revelation, Paine argues that the only reliable, unchanging and universal evidence of God's existence is the natural world.

Paine criticizes the tyrannical actions of the Church as he had those of governments in the Rights of Man and Common Sense, stating that " the Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient Mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue.

In the eighteenth century " vulgarity " was associated with the middling and lower classes and not with obscenity ; thus, when Paine celebrates his " vulgar " style and his critics attack it, the dispute is over class accessibility, not profanity.

Claiming that true religious language is universal, Paine uses elements of the Christian rhetorical tradition to undermine the hierarchies perpetuated by religion itself.

One reason Paine may have been drawn to this style is because he may have briefly been a Methodist preacher, although this suspicion cannot be verified.

Paine dismissed her in the same tones that he had used in The Age of Reason: " pooh, pooh, it is not true.

"' My own mind is my own church ': Blake, Paine and the French Revolution.

Paine is considered to be a significant early independent publisher and a zinester in his own right, but then, the mass media as we now know it did not exist.

He introduces himself with the line, " My name is Michael Paine, and I am a nosy neighbour " and in a spoof of the stakeout at the beginning of The Ipcress File, recounts to the camera the ' suspiciously ' mundane behaviour of his neighbours, before saying, " Not a lot of people know that I know that ".

Junior Senator Smith is taken under the wing of the publicly esteemed, but secretly crooked, Senator Joseph Paine ( Claude Rains ), who was Smith's late father's oldest and best friend.

However, the proposed campsite is already part of a dam-building graft scheme included in an appropriations bill framed by the Taylor " political machine " and supported by Senator Paine.

Unwilling to crucify the worshipful Smith so that their graft plan will go through, Paine tells Taylor he wants out, but Taylor reminds him that Paine is in power primarily through Taylor's influence.

The town is the location of several significant historic buildings, including Lewes Castle, the remains of Lewes Priory, Bull House ( the former home of Tom Paine ), Southover Grange and public gardens, and a sixteenth century timber-framed Wealden hall house known as Anne of Cleves House because it was given to her as part of her divorce settlement from Henry VIII, though she never lived there.

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.

Interest in the idea was revived in the eighteenth century, in such texts as the Historical Essay on the English Constitution ( 1771 ) and John Cartwright's Take Your Choice ( 1777 ) and featured in the debate between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke.

Paine worked as a coach-builder at Eastleigh ’ s British Railways depot, and played his early football for his local club, Winchester City and featured in their Amateur Cup run in 1956 – 57.

Paine featured in England manager Alf Ramsey ’ s plans and he was one of the 22-man squad for the 1966 World Cup.

Tasmanian Wicket-Keeper, Tim Paine, wearing the Tasmanian shirt of the 2008 / 09 season.

The Collection opened to the public in 2004 at the Arlington, Washington airfield, but in 2008 moved to a larger location at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, United States.

In June 2008 the Snohomish County Council rejected the findings of the panel, and as in 1989, 1992 & 2001, restated its opposition to commercial air passenger services operating from Paine Field.

In 2008 two airlines, Allegiant Air and Horizon Air, expressed interest in establishing passenger flights to Paine Field to the airport authority.

In the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Paine was played by Sam Anderson.

Other prominent architects of the early Georgian period include James Paine, Robert Taylor, and John Wood, the Elder.

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

He assembled a loose-knit band of Southern sympathizers, including David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Powell ( also known as Lewis Payne or Paine ), and John Surratt, a rebel agent.

The " Founding Fathers " were strong advocates of republican values, especially Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.

Secularism draws its intellectual roots from Greek and Roman philosophers such as Marcus Aurelius and Epicurus ; medieval Muslim polymaths such as Ibn Rushd ; Enlightenment thinkers such as Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine ; and more recent freethinkers, agnostics, and atheists such as Robert Ingersoll and Bertrand Russell.

* In Spring, a symphony by John Knowles Paine

* Thomas Paine: Citizen of the World by John Belchem at BBC

The petition requesting the establishment of the school, titled " The Founders ' Petition of 1785 ," was addressed to Governor Thomas Carleton and was signed by seven Loyalist men: William Paine, William Wanton, George Sproule, Zephaniah Kingsley, John Coffin, Ward Chipman, and Adino Paddock.

Trained as a violinist, he also studied theory and composition in Boston with Josef Claus and John Knowles Paine.

* April 25 – John Knowles Paine, organist and composer ( born 1839 )

It was John Knowles Paine, however, who became the first American composer to be accepted in Europe.

In that house, or the church itself, he was visited by Founding Fathers of the United States such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine ; other American politicians such as John Adams, who later became the second president of the United States, and his wife Abigail ; British politicians such as Lord Lyttleton, the Earl of Shelburne, Earl Stanhope ( known as " Citizen Stanhope "), and even the Prime Minister William Pitt ; philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith ; agitators such as prison reformer John Howard, gadfly John Horne Tooke, and husband and wife John and Ann Jebb, who between them campaigned on expansion of the franchise, opposition to the war with America, support for the French Revolution, abolitionism, and an end to legal discrimination against Roman Catholics ; writers such as poet and banker Samuel Rogers ; and clergyman-mathematician Thomas Bayes, of Bayes ' theorem.

In this section, Paine also attacks one type of " mixed state " the constitutional monarchy promoted by John Locke in which the powers of government are separated between a Parliament or Congress that makes the laws, and a monarch who executes them.

A number of classical liberals including John Locke, Thomas Paine, and Jefferson recognized that absolute ownership of natural resources could deprive liberty, but classified the great amounts of land populated by indigenous peoples as " unsettled ", avoiding the issue in theory, if not in practice.

He acted as junior counsel for the Crown in the prosecutions of Thomas Paine in absentia for seditious libel ( 1792 ), and John Horne Tooke for high treason ( 1794 ).

John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, and Karl Klauser ( 1891 ).

* January 9 – John Knowles Paine, composer and musicologist

Besides biographical sketches of Defoe, Sir John Davies, Allan Ramsay, Sir David Lyndsay, Churchyard and others, prefixed to editions of their respective works, the British government paid Chalmers 500 pounds sterling to write a hostile biography of Thomas Paine, the author of the Rights of Man, that Chalmers published under the assumed name of Francis Oldys, A. M., of the University of Pennsylvania ; and a life of Ruddiman, in which considerable light is thrown on the state of literature in Scotland during the earlier part of the last century.

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Early members included George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James McHenry, Thomas Paine, David Rittenhouse, Nicholas Biddle, Owen Biddle, Benjamin Rush, James Madison, Michael Hillegas, John Marshall, and John Andrews.