x-posting, note on Paine

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>Date:         Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:06:15 -0500
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>From: Caleb Crain <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      Horse Neck & Tom Paine's drinking
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>Dear fellow Americanists:
>
>I'm annotating an edition of Royall Tyler's "Algerine Captive" (1797), and
>among the obscurities I have not yet been able to clear away are the two
>below. Any hints or positive identifications will be greatly appreciated.
>
>1. At one point, Tyler's hero declares that "I had rather fight ten more
>[duels], than pass once, in a stage waggon, over Horse Neck." Does anyone
>know why Horse Neck was so formidable, or where it might have been?
>
>2. In a chapter lampooning Tom Paine, Tyler writes in a footnote: "Mr.
>Johnson, a respectable bookseller in St. Paul's church yard, London, has
>asserted that Mr. Paine's tongue used to flow most freely against revealed
>religion, when he was most intoxicated with 'ale, or viler liquors.'" Does
>anyone know who this Mr. Johnson was, more exactly?
>
>If you happen to know the answer to either of these, please let me know,
>onlist or back-channel. Thanks!
>
>--Caleb Crain
>
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