The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820Harvard University Press, 1997 - 220 halaman 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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... Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non - Resistance to the Higher Powers ( 1750 ) inserts in colonial dissent a curious dialectic about how Americans must " learn to be free and to be loyal . " " [ A ] warning to all corrupt ...
... Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non - Resistance to the Higher Powers ( 1750 ) inserts in colonial dissent a curious dialectic about how Americans must " learn to be free and to be loyal . " " [ A ] warning to all corrupt ...
Halaman 58
... Discourse on the Christian Union ( 1760 ) . There may be no more prescient document of colonial confederation . Notwithstand- ing his conservative background as an Old Light Congregational minister , Stiles talks the language of ...
... Discourse on the Christian Union ( 1760 ) . There may be no more prescient document of colonial confederation . Notwithstand- ing his conservative background as an Old Light Congregational minister , Stiles talks the language of ...
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... discourse conforms instead to the published work . Secular leaders make their way by following the objectifying combinations of such liberal religious figures as Ezra Stiles , but their ascendancy in the public sphere is also the ...
... discourse conforms instead to the published work . Secular leaders make their way by following the objectifying combinations of such liberal religious figures as Ezra Stiles , but their ascendancy in the public sphere is also the ...
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What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
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