At 12:28 am -0500 on 11/25/97, Jim Choate wrote:
"These are the times that try mens souls "
This quote was written by Thomas Paine after the writing of the Declaration of Independence in a forty-seven page pamphlet called Common Sense. His purpose for saying this was to try to persuade the Americans to demand independence, rather then try to patch up their differences with Great Britain. The effect it had was it made George Washington start to prepare his army. _________________________________________________________________
Woops. Saw this one last night. This one's actually written after "Common Sense". It's from "On the Present(or American?) Crisis" or something, which was actually written in camp, just before Washington crossed the Deleware and started his first counteroffensive. See? The People's Television Network's good for something. Clocks right twice a day, and all that... ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>