Life of Thomas Paine: With Preface, Notes, and Portraits of the Most Celebrated of Mr. Paine's Friends (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The government purchased the venal at any price. Paine refused for the copyright ofthe Rights of Man, but freely permitted all to publish his works who de sired. He could not be bribed nor corrupted. Edmund Burke, one of Paine's intimate correspondents, suddenly changed his political views, under Pitt's baneful influence. And wrote his Reflections on the Revolution in France. When bribery did not succeed and publishers could not be intimidated, they were arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned.

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