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The American Crisis
91Living historically.
Written to be read to men who were about to cross a river in the dark.
The review
The first Crisis paper opens on the soul, not on tactics. A summer soldier and a sunshine patriot will leave when the weather turns. Paine is talking to men who are cold and losing.
A thirteen-year-old was not in the boat. He could still hear the sentence if he lived near a camp. The score is for the paper, not for the battle.
Journal
Keep The American Crisis in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
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The glance
Industry is the thin one.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 9Industry
It is a page for a camp, not a treatise. The work is the sentence.
- 9Household
Home is what the summer soldier goes back to. The piece does not sit at a table.
- 9Piety
Soul is the word he uses. The test is whether a man stays when it costs.
- 10Courage
He names the man who shrinks, and he says it to soldiers.
- 9Republic
A country is what you do not desert in December.
- 9Temperance
Panic is the appetite he is writing against.
- 9Truth
The sunshine patriot is a true name for a real desertion.
- 9Stewardship
Washington had it read to the troops. It was meant to be kept for the worst night.
Where to watch
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