[The Writings of Thomas Paine Volume II by Thomas Paine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Writings of Thomas Paine Volume II CHAPTER V 89/118
13 of the Revolution de Paris containing the events from the 3rd to the 10th of October, 1789.] [Footnote 5: It is a practice in some parts of the country, when two travellers have but one horse, which, like the national purse, will not carry double, that the one mounts and rides two or three miles ahead, and then ties the horse to a gate and walks on.
When the second traveller arrives he takes the horse, rides on, and passes his companion a mile or two, and ties again, and so on--Ride and tie.] [Footnote 6: The word he used was renvoye, dismissed or sent away.] [Footnote 7: When in any country we see extraordinary circumstances taking place, they naturally lead any man who has a talent for observation and investigation, to enquire into the causes.
The manufacturers of Manchester, Birmingham, and Sheffield, are the principal manufacturers in England.
From whence did this arise? A little observation will explain the case.
The principal, and the generality of the inhabitants of those places, are not of what is called in England, the church established by law: and they, or their fathers, (for it is within but a few years) withdrew from the persecution of the chartered towns, where test-laws more particularly operate, and established a sort of asylum for themselves in those places.
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