Returning to London, Paine wrote Rights of Man completing the work on 29 January 1791. On 31 January, he gave the manuscript to publisher Joseph Johnson for publication 9L0-509 on 22 February. Meanwhile, government agents visited him, and, sensing dangerous political controversy, he reneged on his promise to sell the book on publication day; Paine quickly negotiated with publisher 9L0-402 J.S. Jordan, then went to Paris, per William Blake's advice, leaving three good friends, William Godwin, Thomas Brand Hollis, and Thomas Holcroft, charged with Apple 9L0-402 concluding publication. The book appeared on 13 March, three weeks later than scheduled.
The Rights of Man was an abstract political tract supporting the French Revolution, replying to Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke. The seditious book – greatly 9L0-509 Questions critical of monarchies and European social institutions – sold well, but the British government.
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