His infidel and revolutionary principles were opposed by the powerful and eloquent Burke, who, with other noble-mmded coadjutors, crushed the revolution in that country, and sentenced Paine as an outlaw.

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To promote the "revolution of the world,"" he published his "Age of Reason," well entitled a complete piece of ribaldry.

As a companion of the blood-thirsty Robespierre, we find him next sitting on the trial of the innocent Louis.

He was subsequently confined in the dungeons of Paris, where he had a narrow escape of his life.6

In 1796 he published his letter to General Washington, which contained a causeless, ungrateful, virulent and useless attack on one of the best of men.

Shortly after this, he was expelled from the society of his fellow infidels, and a second time committed to prison. He now deemed it expedient to fly to America, taking under his charge a lady named Madame Bonneville, and her three sons. Soon after his arrival in New York, we find him in possession of the farm at New Rochelle. A portion of the house in which he lived (at this period) is still standing : here he had a small room, the furniture of which embraced a miserable straw bed, deal table a chair, Bible, and jug of spirituous liquors. His breakfast table is thus described by an eye witness (Mr. Carver) : " The table-cloth was composed of newspapers ! on it was a tea-pot, some coarse brown sugar, part of a rye loaf, and quarter of a pound of butter.'"-'