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              <text>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;COMMON SENSE;&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;ADDRESSED TO THE&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;INHABITANTS&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;OF&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A M E R I C A,&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;On the following interesting &lt;br /&gt;SUBJECTS.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;I. &amp;nbsp;Of the Origin and Design of Government In general, &amp;nbsp;with &lt;br class="kix-line-break" /&gt;concise Remarks on the English Constitution. &lt;br /&gt;II. Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession.&lt;br /&gt;III. Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs.&lt;br /&gt;IV. Of the present Ability of America, with some miscella-&lt;br /&gt;neous Reflections.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;A NEW EDITION, with several Additions in the Body of the&lt;br class="kix-line-break" /&gt;Work. To which is added an APPENDIX ; together with an&lt;br class="kix-line-break" /&gt;Address to the People called QUAKERS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;N. B. The New Addition here given increases the Work upwards&lt;br class="kix-line-break" /&gt;of One-Third.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Man knows no Master save creating Heaven,&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Or those whom Choice and common Good ordain.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;THOMSON,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;PHILADELPHIA, PRINTED;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br class="kix-line-break" /&gt;LONDON, RE-PRINTED,&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;For J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House in Piccadilly. 1776. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</text>
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