Were Britain truly wise, she would lay hold of the present opportunity to disentangle herself from all continental embarrassments in North America, and that not only to avoid future broils and troubles, but to save expenses.
Paine advises Britain to seize the opportunity to disengage from North American conflicts to avoid future troubles.
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It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.
The American constitutions were to liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.
But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.
It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.