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Thomas Paine.A friend has put into our hands the following account of the close of Thomas Paine’s life. The arch infidel trembles as he approaches the precipice of eternity.Some account of Thomae Pains, re-ceivedfrom Mary Boecow.“After Willet Hicks’ family began to visit him, which was previous to his death, they being near neighbors, at Greenwich, he was much engaged in writing, which he performed with great difficulty, bolstered up in his bed, with something pieced before to rest his paper on ; his shoulders also being stiff, eo that he could not move them ; which, together with what M. Roscow saw, convinced her beyond a doubt, that he wae spending hie little remaining strength, to leave behind him a proof of the abhorreooe of those principles which he had much of his life been endeavoring to inculcate. This circumstance occe-•ioncd M. Roscow to be less careful to preserve or remember what she saw A heard. But what came of the manuscript has not beeo fully ascertained, but it it reported and believed that it 1 was eeot to » Wtaio punts* in this city 1
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Gettysburg Adams Centinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Oct 20, 1819
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