A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ABBE RAYNAL, ON THE AFFAIRS OF NORTH AMERICA; IN WHICH THE MISTAKES IN THE ABBE’s ACCOUNT OF THE REVOLUTION of AMREICA [sic] ARE CORRECTED AND CLEARED UP. BY THOMAS PAINE, SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO CONGRESS, DURING THE AMERICAN WAR, AND AUTHOR OF COMMON SENSE, AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN. LONDON: […]

THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE By Thomas Paine Edited By Moncure Daniel Conway VOLUME III. 1791-1804 G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York London Copyright, 1895 By G. P. Putnam’s Sons Contents INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD VOLUME. I. THE REPUBLICAN PROCLAMATION II. TO THE AUTHORS OF “LE RÉPUBLICAIN.” III. TO THE ABBÉ SIÈYES IV. TO THE […]

THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE VOLUME II. By Thomas Paine Collected And Edited By Moncure Daniel Conway 1779 – 1792 [Redactor’s Note: Reprinted from the “The Writings of Thomas Paine Volume I” (1894 – 1896). The author’s notes are preceded by a “*”. A Table of Contents has been added for each part for the […]

THE AMERICAN CRISIS. EDITOR’S PREFACE. THOMAS PAINE, in his Will, speaks of this work as The American Crisis, remembering perhaps that a number of political pamphlets had appeared in London, 1775-1776, under general title of “The Crisis.” By the blunder of an early English publisher of Paine’s writings, one essay in the London “Crisis” was […]

THE PRINCE by Nicolo Machiavelli Translated by W. K. Marriott Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. From 1494 to 1512 held an official post at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned in Florence, 1512; later exiled and returned to San Casciano. Died at Florence on 22nd June 1527. […]

THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE by JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, C.B. Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge New York Harcourt, Brace and Howe 1920 PREFACE The writer of this book was temporarily attached to the British Treasury during the war and was their official representative at the Paris Peace Conference up to June 7, 1919; he […]

COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. BOOK THE FIRST. BY WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, ESQ. VINERIAN PROFESSOR OF LAW, AND SOLICITOR GENERAL TO HER MAJESTY. OXFORD, PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. M. DCC. LXV. TO THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, THE FOLLOWING VIEW OF THE LAWS AND CONSTITUTION OF ENGLAND, THE IMPROVEMENT AND PROTECTION OF WHICH HAVE […]

Investor’s Business Daily December 3, 1991 Are Taxes Poisoning Economy? Rising Levies in Weak Period Thwart Recovery by Laurie Marmor Recent sharp hikes in federal, state and local levies are creating a phantom “inflation” problem that may be obstructing monetary policy, hurting consumers and businesses and threatening the recovery’s fragile stamina. In the past, a […]

AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM BY JOHN STUART MILL 1865. PART I. THE COURS DE PHILOSOPHIE POSITIVE. For some time much has been said, in England and on the Continent, concerning “Positivism” and “the Positive Philosophy.” Those phrases, which during the life of the eminent thinker who introduced them had made their way into no writings […]

CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT BY JOHN STUART MILL, AUTHOR OF “A SYSTEM OF LOGIC, RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE” NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1862. Preface Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are […]