CONTENT GOES Foner says this essay shows Paine’s interest in India, “together with ‘A Serious Thought’”. But Paine did not write A Serious Thought either. This is a personal study of the tragedy of Clive, Paine uses Clive as an object of ridicule of British colonialism, but the politics is not brought up in this […]
AN ACCOUNT OF THE BURNING OF BACHELORS’ HALL AT PHILADELPHIA, BEING DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING, 1775 BY THE OLD BACHELOR FAIR Venus so often was miss’d from the skies, And Bacchus as frequently absent likewise, That the Synod began to enquire out the reason, Suspecting the culprits were plotting of Treason. At length it was found
Probably written by Philip Freneau who wrote many articles in 1775, but Hopkinson is strong as well. Testing yeilds: The writing is not in the style that Paine ever used elsewhere, using references to the “happy wildness”, “the two terrestrial Charons, who ferried me over the Schuykill”, is not Paine; and especially the reference to
USEFUL and ENTERTAINING HINTS from the Pennsylvania Magazine February, 1775. “The real value of a thing, Is as much money as ’twill bring.” IN the possession of the Philadelphia-Library Company (See Note), is a cabinet of Fossils, with several specimens of earth, clay, sand, &c. with some account of each, and where brought from. Note:
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GENERAL WOLFE AND GENERAL GAGE IN A WOOD NEAR BOSTON This work is most likely written by an author we don’t have in our author-files to compare to, but Paine is definitely not the author. He does not rank in any significance in all the tests made with all possible authors. It
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Enter CRITIC and SNOW DROP.* CRITIC. PROLOGUES to magazines!-the man is mad, No magazine a prologue ever had; But let us hear what new and mighty things Your wonder working magic fancy brings. SNOW DROP. Bit by the muse in an unlucky hour, I’ve left myself at home, and turn’d a flower, And thus disguised
This essay was the first which Paine wrote for the Pennsylvania Magazine and appeared in the January 24, 1775 issue.] In a country whose reigning character is the love of science, it is somewhat strange that the channels of communication should continue so narrow and limited. The weekly papers are at present the only vehicles
