Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Staymaker” in chapter 4, page 75 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
...ware to win the victory of Trenton.
The best known productions of Paine's subsequent career, and , were written in Europe, but they were read throughout America.
The reputation of the rebellious Staymaker has suffered from certain grimy habits and from the ridiculous charge of atheism.
He was no more an atheist than Franklin or Jefferson.
In no sense an original
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