https://el.rub.de/wiki/Brit-Cult/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Thomas_Paine 2026-05-11T20:38:38Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.0 https://el.rub.de/wiki/Brit-Cult/index.php?title=Thomas_Paine&diff=12544&oldid=prev 2019-04-18T11:31:32Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:31, 18 April 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>1737-1809. Journalist, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">His main </del>works <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">comprise </del>''Common Sense'' (1776), the ''Crisis'' papers (1776-1783), ''Rights of Man'' (1792) and ''The Age of Reason'' (1794-1796).  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>1737-1809. Journalist, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Main </ins>works<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: </ins>''Common Sense'' (1776), the ''Crisis'' papers (1776-1783), ''Rights of Man'' (1792) and ''The Age of Reason'' (1794-1796).  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk as son of a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">poor </del>Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began an apprenticeship with his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer.  Not satisfied with the low payment, Paine argued for a pay rise for officers, and was fired. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this point in life, Paine made the acquaintance of [[Benjamin Franklin]] in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested to him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk as son of a Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began an apprenticeship with his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer.  Not satisfied with the low payment, Paine argued for a pay rise for officers, and was fired. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this point in life, Paine made the acquaintance of [[Benjamin Franklin]] in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested to him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, having barely survived the journey</del>.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the ''Pennsylvania Magazine''. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Two years later </del>he anonymously published ''Common Sense'' which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. He used clear, plain language that everyone could understand</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the ''Pennsylvania Magazine''. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In January 1776 </ins>he anonymously published ''Common Sense'' which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic &#039;&#039;Crisis&#039;&#039; papers to inspire the army, he returned to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to revolutionary France. In 1791 he published &#039;&#039;Rights of Man&#039;&#039;, an answer to [[Edmund Burke]]’s &#039;&#039;Reflections on the Revolution in France&#039;&#039;. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic &#039;&#039;Crisis&#039;&#039; papers to inspire the army, he returned to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to revolutionary France. In 1791 he published &#039;&#039;Rights of Man&#039;&#039;, an answer to [[Edmund Burke]]’s &#039;&#039;Reflections on the Revolution in France&#039;&#039;. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because he was against the execution of Louis XVI. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote ''The Age of Reason'', which criticizes organised or institutionalised religion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>Paine was imprisoned because he was against the execution of Louis XVI. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote ''The Age of Reason'', which criticizes organised or institutionalised religion.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1802, Paine sailed back to the United States. He died in New York City in 1809.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1802, Paine sailed back to the United States. He died in New York City in 1809.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb_bild-rsc:diff:1.41:old-12543:rev-12544:php=table --> </table>

Pankratz https://el.rub.de/wiki/Brit-Cult/index.php?title=Thomas_Paine&diff=12543&oldid=prev 2019-04-18T11:27:45Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:27, 18 April 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk as son of a poor Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began an apprenticeship with his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer.  Not satisfied with the low payment, Paine argued for a pay rise for officers, and was fired. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this point in life, Paine made the acquaintance of [[Benjamin Franklin]] in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested to him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk as son of a poor Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began an apprenticeship with his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer.  Not satisfied with the low payment, Paine argued for a pay rise for officers, and was fired. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this point in life, Paine made the acquaintance of [[Benjamin Franklin]] in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested to him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the ''Pennsylvania Magazine''. Two years later he anonymously published ''Common Sense'' which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that everyone could <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">easily </del>understand.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the ''Pennsylvania Magazine''. Two years later he anonymously published ''Common Sense'' which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that everyone could understand.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic ''Crisis'' papers to inspire the army, he returned <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">back </del>to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to revolutionary France. In 1791 he published ''Rights of Man'', an answer to [[Edmund Burke]]’s ''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic ''Crisis'' papers to inspire the army, he returned to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to revolutionary France. In 1791 he published ''Rights of Man'', an answer to [[Edmund Burke]]’s ''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his loyalty to King </del>Louis XVI<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, but freed in 1794</del>. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote ''The Age of Reason'', which criticizes organised or institutionalised religion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he was against the execution </ins>of Louis XVI. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote ''The Age of Reason'', which criticizes organised or institutionalised religion.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1802, Paine <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">finally </del>sailed back to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">America (where he was derided by </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">public) and </del>died in New York City in 1809.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1802, Paine sailed back to the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">United States. He </ins>died in New York City in 1809.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l16">Line 16:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 16:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Maurer, Michael. &#039;&#039;Kleine Geschichte Englands&#039;&#039;. Bonn: Bpb, 2007.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Maurer, Michael. &#039;&#039;Kleine Geschichte Englands&#039;&#039;. Bonn: Bpb, 2007.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Thomas Paine." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 05 Nov. 2009 &lt;http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/438489/Thomas-Paine&gt;.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Thomas Paine." <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Encyclopedia Britannica<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>. 2009. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 05 Nov. 2009 &lt;http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/438489/Thomas-Paine&gt;.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&quot;Thomas Paine.&quot; Verfassungsgeschichte der Neuzeit Online. 12 Oct. 2009.Prof. Dr. Andreas Kley. 05 Nov.2009 &lt;http://www.rwi.uzh.ch/elt-1st-kley/verfg/fr/de/html/paine_learningObject1.html&gt;.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&quot;Thomas Paine.&quot; Verfassungsgeschichte der Neuzeit Online. 12 Oct. 2009.Prof. Dr. Andreas Kley. 05 Nov.2009 &lt;http://www.rwi.uzh.ch/elt-1st-kley/verfg/fr/de/html/paine_learningObject1.html&gt;.</div></td></tr> </table>

Pankratz https://el.rub.de/wiki/Brit-Cult/index.php?title=Thomas_Paine&diff=12542&oldid=prev 2019-04-18T11:16:26Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:16, 18 April 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>1737-1809. Journalist, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States. His main works comprise ''Common Sense'' (1776), the ''Crisis'' papers (1776-1783), ''Rights of Man'' (1792) and ''The Age of Reason'' (1794-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">96</del>)<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. His writings inspired people, but also brought much criticism</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>1737-1809. Journalist, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States. His main works comprise ''Common Sense'' (1776), the ''Crisis'' papers (1776-1783), ''Rights of Man'' (1792) and ''The Age of Reason'' (1794-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1796</ins>).  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Thomas </del>Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, England </del>as son of a poor Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began an apprenticeship with his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Paine, not </del>satisfied with the low payment, argued for a pay rise for officers<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. As a consequence he </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dismissed</del>. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this point in life, Paine made the acquaintance of [[Benjamin Franklin]] in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested to him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk as son of a poor Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began an apprenticeship with his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Not </ins>satisfied with the low payment, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Paine </ins>argued for a pay rise for officers<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fired</ins>. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this point in life, Paine made the acquaintance of [[Benjamin Franklin]] in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested to him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the &#039;&#039;Pennsylvania Magazine&#039;&#039;. Two years later he anonymously published &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that everyone could easily understand.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the &#039;&#039;Pennsylvania Magazine&#039;&#039;. Two years later he anonymously published &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that everyone could easily understand.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic ''Crisis'' papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to revolutionary France. In 1791 he published ''Rights of Man'', an answer to [[Edmund Burke]]’s ''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and criticized monarchy</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic ''Crisis'' papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to revolutionary France. In 1791 he published ''Rights of Man'', an answer to [[Edmund Burke]]’s ''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because of his loyalty to King Louis XVI, but freed in 1794. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039;, which criticizes organised or institutionalised religion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because of his loyalty to King Louis XVI, but freed in 1794. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039;, which criticizes organised or institutionalised religion.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb_bild-rsc:diff:1.41:old-11265:rev-12542:php=table --> </table>

Pankratz https://el.rub.de/wiki/Brit-Cult/index.php?title=Thomas_Paine&diff=11265&oldid=prev 2017-01-17T21:10:40Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:10, 17 January 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the &#039;&#039;Pennsylvania Magazine&#039;&#039;. Two years later he anonymously published &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that everyone could easily understand.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the &#039;&#039;Pennsylvania Magazine&#039;&#039;. Two years later he anonymously published &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that everyone could easily understand.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic ''Crisis'' papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to revolutionary France. In 1791 he published ''Rights of Man'', an answer to Edmund <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Burke’s </del>''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism and criticized monarchy.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic ''Crisis'' papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to revolutionary France. In 1791 he published ''Rights of Man'', an answer to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Edmund <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Burke]]’s </ins>''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism and criticized monarchy.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because of his loyalty to King Louis XVI, but freed in 1794. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039;, which criticizes organised or institutionalised religion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because of his loyalty to King Louis XVI, but freed in 1794. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039;, which criticizes organised or institutionalised religion.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb_bild-rsc:diff:1.41:old-9743:rev-11265:php=table --> </table>

WikiSysop https://el.rub.de/wiki/Brit-Cult/index.php?title=Thomas_Paine&diff=9743&oldid=prev 2013-11-11T15:52:36Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:52, 11 November 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>1737-1809. Journalist, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States. His main works comprise &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; (1776), the &#039;&#039;Crisis&#039;&#039; papers (1776-1783), &#039;&#039;Rights of Man&#039;&#039; (1792) and &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039; (1794-96). His writings inspired people, but also brought much criticism.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>1737-1809. Journalist, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States. His main works comprise &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; (1776), the &#039;&#039;Crisis&#039;&#039; papers (1776-1783), &#039;&#039;Rights of Man&#039;&#039; (1792) and &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039; (1794-96). His writings inspired people, but also brought much criticism.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk, England as son of a poor Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began an apprenticeship with his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer. Paine, not satisfied with the low payment, argued for a pay rise for officers. As a consequence he was dismissed. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this point in life, Paine made the acquaintance of [[Benjamin Franklin]] in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk, England as son of a poor Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began an apprenticeship with his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer. Paine, not satisfied with the low payment, argued for a pay rise for officers. As a consequence he was dismissed. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this point in life, Paine made the acquaintance of [[Benjamin Franklin]] in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to </ins>him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the ''Pennsylvania Magazine''. Two years later he anonymously published ''Common Sense'' which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the common people, the average man </del>could easily understand.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the ''Pennsylvania Magazine''. Two years later he anonymously published ''Common Sense'' which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">everyone </ins>could easily understand.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic &#039;&#039;Crisis&#039;&#039; papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to revolutionary France. In 1791 he published &#039;&#039;Rights of Man&#039;&#039;, an answer to Edmund Burke’s &#039;&#039;Reflections on the Revolution in France&#039;&#039;. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism and criticized monarchy.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic &#039;&#039;Crisis&#039;&#039; papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to revolutionary France. In 1791 he published &#039;&#039;Rights of Man&#039;&#039;, an answer to Edmund Burke’s &#039;&#039;Reflections on the Revolution in France&#039;&#039;. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism and criticized monarchy.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb_bild-rsc:diff:1.41:old-9742:rev-9743:php=table --> </table>

Pankratz https://el.rub.de/wiki/Brit-Cult/index.php?title=Thomas_Paine&diff=9742&oldid=prev 2013-11-11T15:51:11Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:51, 11 November 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>1737-1809. Journalist, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States. His main works comprise &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; (1776), the &#039;&#039;Crisis&#039;&#039; papers (1776-1783), &#039;&#039;Rights of Man&#039;&#039; (1792) and &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039; (1794-96). His writings inspired people, but also brought much criticism.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>1737-1809. Journalist, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States. His main works comprise &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; (1776), the &#039;&#039;Crisis&#039;&#039; papers (1776-1783), &#039;&#039;Rights of Man&#039;&#039; (1792) and &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039; (1794-96). His writings inspired people, but also brought much criticism.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk, England as son of a poor Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">apprenticing for </del>his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer. Paine, not satisfied with the low payment, argued for a pay rise for officers. As a consequence he was dismissed. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">unhappy </del>point in life, Paine made the acquaintance of Benjamin Franklin <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(1706-1790) </del>in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk, England as son of a poor Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an apprenticeship with </ins>his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer. Paine, not satisfied with the low payment, argued for a pay rise for officers. As a consequence he was dismissed. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this point in life, Paine made the acquaintance of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Benjamin Franklin<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the &#039;&#039;Pennsylvania Magazine&#039;&#039;. Two years later he anonymously published &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that the common people, the average man could easily understand.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the &#039;&#039;Pennsylvania Magazine&#039;&#039;. Two years later he anonymously published &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; which became an immediate success at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that the common people, the average man could easily understand.  </div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb_bild-rsc:diff:1.41:old-4170:rev-9742:php=table --> </table>

Pankratz https://el.rub.de/wiki/Brit-Cult/index.php?title=Thomas_Paine&diff=4170&oldid=prev 2010-01-26T10:50:32Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:50, 26 January 2010</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>1737-1809. Journalist, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>1737-1809. Journalist, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. His main works comprise ''Common Sense'' (1776), the ''Crisis'' papers (1776-1783), ''Rights of Man'' (1792) and ''The Age of Reason'' (1794-96). His writings inspired people, but also brought much criticism</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">His main works comprise ''Common Sense'' (1776)</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''Crisis'' papers (1776-1783)</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''Rights </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Man'' (1792) and ''The Age </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Reason'' </del>(<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1794</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">96</del>)<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. His writings inspired people</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but also brought much criticism</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">England as son of a poor Quaker family. At </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began apprenticing for his father</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a corset maker; later he took over the profession </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a tax officer. Paine, not satisfied with the low payment, argued for a pay rise for officers. As a consequence he was dismissed. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this unhappy point in life, Paine made the acquaintance </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Benjamin Franklin </ins>(<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1706</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1790</ins>) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in London</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested him to emigrate to the American colonies</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Thomas </del>Paine <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was born on January 29, 1737 </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Norfolk</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">England as son </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a poor Quaker family. At </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">First, </del>he <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">began apprenticing for his father</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a corset maker; later he took over </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">profession </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a tax officer</del>. Paine<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, not satisfied with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">low payment, argued for a pay rise for officers</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As a consequence he </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dismissed</del>. He <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this unhappy point in life</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Paine made </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">acquaintance with Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) in London</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested him to emigrate to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">American colonies</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 1774, </ins>Paine <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">arrived </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Philadelphia</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''Pennsylvania Magazine''</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Two years later </ins>he <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">anonymously published ''Common Sense'' which became an immediate success at a time</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">question </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">independence was still not decided</ins>. Paine <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">challenged </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">British government and monarchy</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the first time someone openly asked for American independence</ins>. He <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">used clear</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">plain language that </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">common people</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">average man could easily understand</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 1774</del>, Paine <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">arrived in Philadelphia</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the </del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pennsylvania Magazine</del>''. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Two years later </del>he <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">anonymously </del>published ''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Common Sense</del>'' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which became at a time</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">question of independence was still not decided an immediate success</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Paine challenged </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">British government </del>and monarchy<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that the common people, the average man could easily understand</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]]</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in which </ins>Paine <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">published the famous</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">patriotic </ins>''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Crisis</ins>'' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to revolutionary France. In 1791 </ins>he published ''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rights of Man</ins>'', <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an answer to Edmund Burke’s ''Reflections on </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Revolution in France''</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Paine’s work clearly defended </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">French Revolution and republicanism </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">criticized </ins>monarchy.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After the [[American War of Independence|War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic ''Crisis'' papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to France. In 1791 he published ''Rights of Man'', an answer to Edmund Burke’s ''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism and criticized monarchy.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because of his loyalty to King Louis XVI, but freed in 1794. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote ''The Age of Reason'', which criticizes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">organised </ins>or institutionalised religion.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because of his loyalty to King Louis XVI, but freed in 1794. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote ''The Age of Reason'', which criticizes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">organized </del>or institutionalised religion.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1802, Paine finally sailed back to America (where he was derided by the public) and died in New York City in 1809.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1802, Paine finally sailed back to America (where he was derided by the public) and died in New York City in 1809.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb_bild-rsc:diff:1.41:old-3083:rev-4170:php=table --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:04, 6 November 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the &#039;&#039;Pennsylvania Magazine&#039;&#039;. Two years later he anonymously published &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; which became at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided an immediate success. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that the common people, the average man could easily understand.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the &#039;&#039;Pennsylvania Magazine&#039;&#039;. Two years later he anonymously published &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; which became at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided an immediate success. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that the common people, the average man could easily understand.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic ''Crisis'' papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to France. In 1791 he published ''Rights of Man'', an answer to Edmund Burke’s ''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism and criticized monarchy.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">American War of Independence|</ins>War of Independence]], in which Paine published the famous, patriotic ''Crisis'' papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to France. In 1791 he published ''Rights of Man'', an answer to Edmund Burke’s ''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism and criticized monarchy.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because of his loyalty to King Louis XVI, but freed in 1794. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039;, which criticizes organized or institutionalised religion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because of his loyalty to King Louis XVI, but freed in 1794. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039;, which criticizes organized or institutionalised religion.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb_bild-rsc:diff:1.41:old-3068:rev-3083:php=table --> </table>

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<p>moved <a href="/wiki/Brit-Cult/index.php?title=Thomas_paine&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas paine (page does not exist)">Thomas paine</a> to <a href="/wiki/Brit-Cult/index.php/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:55, 6 November 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="diff-notice" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb_bild-rsc:diff:1.41:old-3046:rev-3068 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:21, 6 November 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''Thomas Paine''' (</del>1737-1809<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">),</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>1737-1809<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Journalist</ins>, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">journalist</del>, author, political pamphleteer, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States.  </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His main works comprise &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; (1776), the &#039;&#039;Crisis&#039;&#039; papers (1776-1783), &#039;&#039;Rights of Man&#039;&#039; (1792) and &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039; (1794-96). His writings inspired people, but also brought much criticism.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His main works comprise &#039;&#039;Common Sense&#039;&#039; (1776), the &#039;&#039;Crisis&#039;&#039; papers (1776-1783), &#039;&#039;Rights of Man&#039;&#039; (1792) and &#039;&#039;The Age of Reason&#039;&#039; (1794-96). His writings inspired people, but also brought much criticism.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk, England as son of a poor Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began apprenticing for his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer. Paine, not satisfied with the low payment, argued for a pay rise for officers. As a consequence he was dismissed. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this unhappy point in life, Paine made the acquaintance with Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk, England as son of a poor Quaker family. At the age of 12 he left school, having acquired basic knowledge in reading, writing and arithmetic. First, he began apprenticing for his father, a corset maker; later he took over the profession of a tax officer. Paine, not satisfied with the low payment, argued for a pay rise for officers. As a consequence he was dismissed. He tried out several other occupations but was very unsuccessful. At this unhappy point in life, Paine made the acquaintance with Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) in London, who encouraged him to become a journalist and suggested him to emigrate to the American colonies.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine. Two years later he anonymously published ''Common Sense'' which became at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided an immediate success. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that the common people, the average man could easily understand.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1774, Paine arrived in Philadelphia, having barely survived the journey.  He soon followed Franklin’s advice and became editor of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Pennsylvania Magazine<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>. Two years later he anonymously published ''Common Sense'' which became at a time, when the question of independence was still not decided an immediate success. Paine challenged the British government and monarchy. It was the first time someone openly asked for American independence. He used clear, plain language that the common people, the average man could easily understand.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the War of Independence, in which Paine published the famous, patriotic Crisis papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to France. In 1791 he published ''Rights of Man'', an answer to Edmund Burke’s ''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism and criticized monarchy.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>War of Independence<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, in which Paine published the famous, patriotic <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Crisis<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>papers to inspire the army, he returned back to Great Britain. Being persecuted by the British, Paine fled to France. In 1791 he published ''Rights of Man'', an answer to Edmund Burke’s ''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. Paine’s work clearly defended the French Revolution and republicanism and criticized monarchy.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because of his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">loyality </del>to King Louis <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">XIV</del>, but freed in 1794. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote ''The Age of Reason'', which criticizes organized or institutionalised religion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In France he became a member of the National Convention. Under Robespierre Paine was imprisoned because of his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">loyalty </ins>to King Louis <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">XVI</ins>, but freed in 1794. Between 1794 and 1796, Paine wrote ''The Age of Reason'', which criticizes organized or institutionalised religion.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1802, Paine finally sailed back to America (where he was derided by the public) and died in New York City in 1809.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1802, Paine finally sailed back to America (where he was derided by the public) and died in New York City in 1809.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb_bild-rsc:diff:1.41:old-3032:rev-3046:php=table --> </table>

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