Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man. London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1792.3 Volumes in one. 1792. Rights of Man. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. By Thomas Paine, Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Congress in the American War, and Author of the Works Intitled Common Sense, a Letter to the Abbe Raynal, &c. Part I. London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row. 1792. [title leaf], Preface [iii]-iv, text [5]-86pp, page 86 mis-paginated "6". Howes P31, ESTC N44151. ++ RIGHTS OF MAN; Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. By Thomas Paine, Secretary for Foreign Affairs... Author of... And the "First Part of the Rights of Man." London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row. 1792. [title leaf], [iii]-vii, [1], [9]-90, [1], App. [1]-3, blank [i], [1], lacking second/subsequent ads leaves. In this edition, last line of 2nd page of Appendix reads "are now at". Howes P32, ESTC T5879. ++ 3rd part's title: Miscllaneous Articles...London: Printed for J. Ridgway, 1792. 36pp. 8vo. Late 19th/early 20th ¾ leather over red cloth. Paine's Rights of Man, in 3 parts. "With a force and a clarity unequalled even by Burke, Paine laid down those principles of fundamental human rights which must stand, no matter what excesses are committed to obtain them. His own deep and bitter knowledge of revolutionary politics... enabled him to see where Burke's vision had been clouded both by horror and by his own experience of the stable realities of British politics... Considered apart from the turmoil which attended its first publication, however, Rights of Man... textbook of radical thought and the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy." -PMM 241. In Britain, Paine had been tried in absentia and convicted of sedition, the same crime of which Symonds was himself convicted.

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