Rhetoric of a Mad Man – Thomas Paine

English: Lesson 65 A critique of Paine's pamphlets from the point of view of a loyalist in 1778. I write this short essay to reveal to those in America how foolish they are to be swayed by the unfortunately popular pamphlets, The American Crisis, and their mysterious author. Not only are these pamphlets filled with the rhetoric …

The illogical arguments of Thomas Paine

English: Lesson 60  "The most illogical argument in Common Sense" Thomas Paine: a tax collector, businessman, and ship stay maker from Europe, left for America in 1774 in the hopes of finding success. What did he decide to do there? He became a journalist and helped write and edit the Pennsylvania Magazine, and within the first few …