The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820Harvard University Press, 1997 - 220 страница This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... whig and president of Yale in the 1770s , writes better than he knows in 1760. The conciliatory tones of A Discourse on the Christian Union attest to a powerful colonial yearning for language that will at once individualize and unify ...
... whig and president of Yale in the 1770s , writes better than he knows in 1760. The conciliatory tones of A Discourse on the Christian Union attest to a powerful colonial yearning for language that will at once individualize and unify ...
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... Whig tradition of legal precedents . Four of his seven resolutions against the Stamp Act reiterate the rights of English subjects . Henry may write them on the " blank leaf of an old law book , " but his language owes much to the ...
... Whig tradition of legal precedents . Four of his seven resolutions against the Stamp Act reiterate the rights of English subjects . Henry may write them on the " blank leaf of an old law book , " but his language owes much to the ...
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... Whig and Cato's Letters . But these influences in themselves stress the enabling capacities rather than the hesitations in protest , and it is the hesitations that define the evolution of colonial protest . Until 1776 , the dominant ...
... Whig and Cato's Letters . But these influences in themselves stress the enabling capacities rather than the hesitations in protest , and it is the hesitations that define the evolution of colonial protest . Until 1776 , the dominant ...
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What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
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