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He gets entangled with parties coeval or equal with himself at home, and thinks not how fast the rising generation in America is growing beyond his knowledge of them, or they of him.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “He gets entangled with parties coeval or equal with himself at home, and thinks not how fast the rising generation in…”
Editor's note · Context
Paine warns that British politicians are out of touch with the rapidly changing American society.
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