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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... language deliberately entertains several planes of implication at a time , and it is most successful when the same utterance performs many functions . The greater appeal of mixed intellectual modes is the goal of such language , but its ...
... language deliberately entertains several planes of implication at a time , and it is most successful when the same utterance performs many functions . The greater appeal of mixed intellectual modes is the goal of such language , but its ...
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... language in the early Republic requires a basic act of mutual recognition between leaders and led . The vigor in a slogan like E Pluribus Unum , the motto that Franklin , Adams , and Jefferson select for the Continental Congress ...
... language in the early Republic requires a basic act of mutual recognition between leaders and led . The vigor in a slogan like E Pluribus Unum , the motto that Franklin , Adams , and Jefferson select for the Continental Congress ...
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... language , and ritual merge in the citizen's sense of belonging to a proper celebration of republican identity . Behind such exercises , though , and essential to them , is an unspecified modicum of belief . The language holds because ...
... language , and ritual merge in the citizen's sense of belonging to a proper celebration of republican identity . Behind such exercises , though , and essential to them , is an unspecified modicum of belief . The language holds because ...
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What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
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