The political writings of Thomas Paine : secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the author's life
Volume I chapters: Sketch of the Life of Thomas Paine // Common Sense // Epistle to the Quakers // "The Crisis" numbers 1 through 16 // Public Good. On The Claim of Virginia to the Western Territory // Letter to the abbe Raynal // Dissertations on government , the affairs of the bank , and paper money // Miscellaneous
Volume II chapters: Prospects of the Rubicon // Rights of man Part 1. Being an answer to Mr Burke 's attack on the French Revolution // Rights of Man Part 2. Combining principles and practice // Letter to theauthors of The Republican // Letter to the abbe Sieyes // Address to the Addressers // Letters to Lord Onslow // Dissertation on First Principles of government // Speech delivered to the French National Convention // Letter to Mr Secretary Dundas // The Decline and Fall of the English system of Finance // Letter to the People of France // Reasons for preserving the life of Louis Capet as delivered to the national convention // Agrarian justice, opposed to agrarian law, and to agrarian monopoly.
The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the king's attorney-general against Thomas Paine : for a libel upon the revolution and settlement of the crown and regal government as by law established : and also upon the bill of rights, the legislature, government, laws, and parliament of this kingdom, and upon the king : tried by a special jury in the court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Tuesday, the 18th of December, 1792, before the Right Honourable Lord Kenyon
Pages [1]-[4] at end: publisher's advertisements ("The following trials are published from Mr. Gurney's short-hand notes").
Erratum on page 196.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time,
Summary
First edition of this work on the proceedings directed against the second part of Rights of man. The speeches of the attorney-general (Sir Archibald Macdonald) and of Mr. Erskine, counsel for the defendant, are given in full.
