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Thomas Paine.A friend has put into our hinds the following account of the close of Thomas Paine’s life. The trcb infidel trembles as he approaches the precipice of eternity.Some account of Thomae Paine, re-ceivedfrom Mary Hoecovs.“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 placed 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 his 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 occa* •ioncd Bf. Roscow to be less careful to preserve or remember what she saw heard. But what came of the manuscript has not beeo fully ascertained, but it it reported and believed that it was ceot W * Wtaio prints; in this city
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Gettysburg Adams Centinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Oct 20, 1819
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