Thomas Paine: “Because they have uniformly laboured to conquer this Continent, rejecting every idea of accommodation proposed to them…”

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.