コモン・センス
- 言語:
- 英語
- 状態:
- 完全な作品
- 著者性:
- 著者自身による
- テキストの状態:
- スキャンのノイズは検出されていません (全文に対する自動測定で、人の目では確認していません)
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- 約 22,300 語 · 106 節
この作品を引用
- APAトーマス・ペイン. (n.d.). Common Sense [コモン・センス]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/thomas-paine/common-sense
- MLAトーマス・ペイン. Common Sense [コモン・センス]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/thomas-paine/common-sense.
- Chicagoトーマス・ペイン. Common Sense [コモン・センス]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/thomas-paine/common-sense.
収録版の書誌情報です。SigPhi はデジタル複製です。判明している刊行年・出版社・翻訳者を記載し、年が不明の場合は「n.d.」と示します。
何についての本か
『コモン・センス』（一七七六年）。アメリカ独立を作った小冊子。
背景と歴史
五十ページ、値段は一シリング。それが植民地に、自分たちが望んでいるのは改良ではなく分離だと信じさせた。人口二百五十万のなかで数十万部が出回った。これほど直接に、これほど測れる効果を持った政治文書はほかにない。
これは編集上の背景であり、引用できる典拠ではありません。作品本文の一節とは異なり、これらの記述はコーパスで検証できません。
declarations of his thanks, but in the positive stile of a prophet charges them with disaffection to their proper Sovereign, the King of heaven. About one hundred and thirty years after this, they fell again into the same error. The hankering which the Jews had for the idolatrous customs of the Heathens, is something exceedingly unaccountable; but so it was, that laying hold of the misconduct of Samuel's two sons, who were entrusted with some secular concerns, they came in an abrupt and clamorous manner to Samuel, saying, Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways, now make us a king to judge us like all other nations. And here we cannot but observe that their motives were bad, viz. that they might be like unto other nations, i.e. the Heathens, whereas their true glory laid in being as much unlike them as possible. But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us; and Samuel prayed unto the Lord, and the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee, for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, THAT I SHOULD NOT REIGN OVER THEM. According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even unto this day; wherewith they have forsaken me and served other Gods; so do they also unto thee. Now therefore hearken unto their voice, howbeit, protest solemnly unto them and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them, i.e. not of any particular king, but the general manner of the kings of the earth, whom Israel was so eagerly copying after. And notwithstanding the great distance of time and difference of manners, the character is still in fashion. And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people, that asked of him a king.…