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"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
Title: "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 937 | Pages: 4.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
"In my youth I also read tragedies,
epic poems, romances, and divinity.
Now I read Common Sense."
Robert Bage
A Brief History Of Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was born Tom Pain in the town of Thetford, Norfolk on
January 29, 1737. His father, Joseph, was a Quaker staymaker, while his mother
was the daughter of an attorney. Tom was raised in Quaker fashion and schooled
from age six to thirteen. In 1750, he began to apprentice in his …showed first 75 words of 937 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 937 total…have riled the people up. Paine was
only the catalyst that started it earlier.
Conclusion
To conclude, it is apparent that Paine was truly a revolutionary man. His ideas, at
the time, were very radical, maybe even for people in our time. I must say that I feel
more of a "renaissance" man for having read Common Sense, and I must say that I am
very happy not to be speaking with an English accent.
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