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BEING AN

ANSWER TO MR. BURKE'S ATTACK

ON THE

FRENCH REVOLUTION.

BY

THOMAS PAINE.

SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO CONGRESS IN THE AMERICAN WAR,
AND AUTHOR OF THE WORK ENTITLED "COM Mon Sense."

PART I.

NEW YORK:

PETER ECKLER, PUBLISHER,

35 FULTON STREET.

1892.

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ΤΟ

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

I

SIR,

PRESENT you a small treatise in defence of those

principles of freedom which your exemplary virtue hath so eminently contributed to establish. That the Rights of Man may become as universal as your benevolence can wish, and that you may enjoy the happiness of seeing the New World regenerate the Old, is the prayer of

SIR,

Your much obliged, and

Obedient humble servant,

THOMAS PAINE.

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