Common sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs. IV. Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflections. A new edition, with several additions in the body of the work. To which is added an appendix; together with an address to the people called Quakers. N.B. The new addition here given increases the work upwards of one third.

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, :8 COMMON COMMONiSENSE. SENQE. not. then-are in; nor a judge of thofe wht- have. But if you have and can flitl (halts hands with the murderers, then art: you unworthy the mine of hufbrmd, lz‘hf't. f lt'fit', or lover, and whatever may be your rank or uric in life, \nu have the heart of a cowa=d. and the {pirit of a imnphant. This is not it timing or exagaé'ating mat res but trying them by thofe feelings and afi‘caions which PIN"; jufe litres, and without which, we thou d be incansb e of dilcharglng the focial duties of life, or enjoying the ielicitics of it. 1 mean not to exhibit honor for the purpofe of provoking? revenge, but to awaken us from fatal and unmanly numbers that we may puriue determinately fame fixed objeét. ' l‘is hot in the power of England or of Europe to conquer America, if [he doth not conquer htrfelf by delay and iimin'r‘tr. The pt'elcgtt winter is worth an age if rightly employed, but if loll or neg'efled,the whofe continc'nt will partake of the misfortune; and there is no pttniihment which that man doth not defcrve, be he who', or what, or where he will, that may be the means of facrtficing a (cation {0 piecious and uteful. ' 29 To fay, they wil never attempt it again is id'e and viiiyct'a. onary, we thought {0 at the repeal of the llamp aé'l, year or tw~ unneceivcd us; as well may we fuppufe that never renew the ha inns which but: been once dsfcated will . gravel. Brirvf A As to gwerr‘mtnt matters, 'tis not in the p~wer . H wrll tain to no this continent jl)‘.:C'i 3 The bufirzcls of any with d manage be farm be too wr'ghty and intricate to drilant {a pwer a by twerab'e degree at cnnvenicrrce, cannot crinfrom its, and fa very ignorant of us; for if they grer us, they Cannot gnvrrn us. To be alwsy's running a petition, wattthree or four thoufand miles with a tale or whenobtarning {Our or five mzrnths for an anfrver, which ll in afew tn,w: rr in "pla to more fix ed, requires five or ' --'l here nefs- . ldilh chi and fully as upon had In be years time proper a was a timr alien it was proper, and there is for it to ceafe. Small liltnds not capable of prmcé'ling themlslvcsaa'e under their care : the proper ot‘jcéls for gavernment to take a «same!!! but 416 e is tomcthing very abfurdjn {uppofing to b- perpe'nally governed by an ifltnd. In no tnflancc 'Tis repugnant to rcafon, to the univerfal order of things, to all taxamples ft: m former ages, to iuppofe, that this con- its primary planet, hath nature made the {atellite larger than tinent cm long remain fnbjcét to any external power. The mt-fl {anguine in Britain do 'not think {0. The utmofl firstth and as Eng'an lhcy belorg verfe the cnmmm or let nf natutet it is evident ca tu "fellAmeri e: Europ w t- d Ester" iyiismstiEngland or relentparty, pride, of s mative by 1 «,m not induced ndance. indepe and inn feparat oi nc dnélti :l'te t {insul mcnt to nf human wifdcm banner, at this time, co-mpafs a plan {hart nfa frparatrnn,'which can prumtfe the continent even is year's (county. Reconciliation is mu; 3 lallacious drcann Nature hath defertcé the conneaicn, and art cannot (uppr hat [.1 race. For as Milton wifely cxprtfics " never can true reenaciicment grow, where wounds of deadly hate have pierced in dccp." Ewry quiet methntl for peace hath been intffeaual. Our pla§€;S have been trj'tied with diidain 5 and only tended to (0118;30" us, that nothing flaitcrs vanity, 0r confirms chitinacy ierrngs, more than repeated petitioning-and nothing hath contributed m'wrc th'iR that very mealtime to make the Kin-gs 0t Eat-ope ablatu't : Wrttrcfs Denmark and Sweden. Vt'hcrcfute. liner: nothing but biows will do, for God's like let us come to a final reparation, and not luv: the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated insures uf pstent and child. To d and, America with refsca to each other, '9- t'd that it I am c‘catlv, phfi'iwly. anti ccmfmcntica-fl; perfuad every that to; b: to r‘t confinr this is the true irrrersfl of no it can aflbrd thing [hurt of tbar is merc'psvchavok: th at lafling felicity-thatit is leaving the {word to our chime-=56 far- more, a little {hiking back at a time, whrn‘ a htt'e g‘ntyuf €th earth. 1h? enr con-:in s "h ther,w :ii'fd have rendered to- inc‘inatron - As Bdtaln hath not manift-ltrd the leafi nn terms can Wasés a comprbmifc, we may be sfibred that nts 0' 3' comme the be sbtaincvl. wnrhy the accep‘ance of we have e treafur and blood of e nv ways in ml to the expens been alreaw put to. . ejufi The obi it came"! -d for, ought alwaye to bear {om {impartron to the "genes. The removal of Nor‘ th, or the when: