Thomas Paine: “Through all the vocabulary of Adam there is not such an animal as a Duke or a Count; neither can we connect any certain…”

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.

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

But the spirit of the nation was not to be overcome, and it was so fully sensible of the strong ground it had taken--that of withholding taxes--that it contented itself with keeping up a sort of quiet resistance, which effectually…

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.