Thomas Paine was born in Norfolk, England, on January 29, 1737. He received a basic education in history, mathematics, and science, but left school at age 13 to apprentice in his father's corsetmaking shop. In 1757, he spent time at sea aboard the privateer ship King of Prussia, and later found employment as a journeyman staymaker in London. All the while, Paine continued to study on his own, influenced by the work of two leading figures of the Enlightenment, Isaac Newton and John Locke. He began writing political pamphlets, and at the urging of Benjamin Franklin, emigrated to Philadelphia in 1774 to work as an editor for The Pennsylvania Magazine. In 1776, he published Common Sense, which called for America's political freedom from England. The pamphlet sold more than 150,000 copies in three months. Paine next published The American Crisis during the Revolutionary War, inspiring George Washington to read it to his troops at Valley Forge. By the end of the Revolution, however, Paine's influence had run its course, and he fell out of political favor. He returned to Europe, where he published his treatise Rights of Man, which led to his arrest on charges of high treason. Disillusioned with life abroad, he returned to the U.S. to find himself vilifed as an agitator and atheist. He died in obscurity in New York City in 1809.
Diana Gabaldon is the New York Times bestselling author of five previous novels -- Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager,
When Common Sense was published in January 1776, it sold, by some estimates, a stunning 150,000 copies in the colonies. What exactly made this pamphlet so appealing? This is a question not only about the state of mind of Paine's audience, but also about the role of public opinion and debate, the function of the press, and the shape of political culture in the colonies. This Broadview edition of Paine’s famous pamphlet attempts to reconstruct the context in which it appeared and to recapture the energy and passion of the dispute over the political future of the British colonies in North America. Included along with the text of Common Sense are some of the contemporary arguments for and against the Revolution by John Dickinson, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson; materials from the debate that followed the pamphlet's publication showing the difficulty of the choices facing the colonists; the Declaration of Independence; and the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776.
有些名著不是很难读,比如潘恩的《常识》,内容确实如书名所言,全是常识,但这些常识是就今天而言的,在此书出版的年代,也就前一年莱克星顿的枪声打响之后的1776年1月,这本书所具有的震撼人心的作用是今人所不可想象的,彼时的人们,包括许多建国先贤,还都处于要不要与...
评分读完潘恩的《常识》,我先是感觉到思想的伟大,继而又感觉到一丝迷惑。 我觉得《常识》的伟大,在于它如同先知,看到了现代社会的发展趋势。他对于美国独立的构想,对于现代社会的民主发展理念,几乎预言了美国社会的发展轨迹。因此,从这个角度上来,我觉得潘恩的《常识》是十...
评分 评分因为对美国一直并非太了解,所以不曾对其文化精神方面妄加评论… 毕竟不了解就没有评论权… 我是抱着“看看你们每天耀武扬威到底是以什么为根据的”的态度去看的… 然后发现我这种态度就玷污了这本书… 这本书我个人觉得纯粹是社会学上的…它本身不涉及任何体制之间的孰优孰劣...
评分其实,早就听说过《常识》这本书。刘瑜和李海鹏的杂文集里都会提到托马斯潘恩和这本号称改变世界的20本书之首的小册子。读罢这本书,才明白为什么它能有如此的盛赞。 这本书诞生于1776年,距今200多年了。读这本书,必须结合当时的历史来。18世纪后叶,北美殖民...
Storyline: 从大处着眼先讲明政权起源,继而辩驳君主制和世袭制,这当中一直以英国作为例子。接着小处着手,探讨美国现在的处境,声明一定要独立,以及如果要独立,美国现在的能力。 逻辑清晰,语言干练强势,骂起人来毫不含糊,不像小说家借故事暗讽,也不像毛姆或者奥威尔明讽,而是直接开骂,有骂醒美国人的架势,在当时的情景下非常合适了。mark 一下今年的第20本书。
评分Storyline: 从大处着眼先讲明政权起源,继而辩驳君主制和世袭制,这当中一直以英国作为例子。接着小处着手,探讨美国现在的处境,声明一定要独立,以及如果要独立,美国现在的能力。 逻辑清晰,语言干练强势,骂起人来毫不含糊,不像小说家借故事暗讽,也不像毛姆或者奥威尔明讽,而是直接开骂,有骂醒美国人的架势,在当时的情景下非常合适了。mark 一下今年的第20本书。
评分雄辩而简洁
评分雄辩而简洁
评分Storyline: 从大处着眼先讲明政权起源,继而辩驳君主制和世袭制,这当中一直以英国作为例子。接着小处着手,探讨美国现在的处境,声明一定要独立,以及如果要独立,美国现在的能力。 逻辑清晰,语言干练强势,骂起人来毫不含糊,不像小说家借故事暗讽,也不像毛姆或者奥威尔明讽,而是直接开骂,有骂醒美国人的架势,在当时的情景下非常合适了。mark 一下今年的第20本书。
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.wenda123.org All Rights Reserved. 图书目录大全 版权所有