An Outline Sketch of American LiteratureChautauqua Press, 1887 - 287 pages |
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... feeling of an old and rich civilization about them , a state of society which America has only begun to reach during the present century . Virginia and New England , says Lowell , were the " two great distributing centers of the English ...
... feeling of an old and rich civilization about them , a state of society which America has only begun to reach during the present century . Virginia and New England , says Lowell , were the " two great distributing centers of the English ...
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... feeling about them the pressure of vast bodies of people who did not think as they did . In New England , for many generations , the dom , inant sect had things all its own way , a condition of things which is not healthy for any sect ...
... feeling about them the pressure of vast bodies of people who did not think as they did . In New England , for many generations , the dom , inant sect had things all its own way , a condition of things which is not healthy for any sect ...
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... feeling in his Treatise Concerning Religious Affections , 1746. Such is his portrait of Sarah Pierpont , " a young lady in New Haven , " who afterward became his wife , and who " will sometimes go about from place to place singing ...
... feeling in his Treatise Concerning Religious Affections , 1746. Such is his portrait of Sarah Pierpont , " a young lady in New Haven , " who afterward became his wife , and who " will sometimes go about from place to place singing ...
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... feeling was spreading ; over forty newspapers were published in America at the outbreak of the Revolution ; politics claimed more attention than formerly , and theology less . With all this inter- course and mutual reaction of the ...
... feeling was spreading ; over forty newspapers were published in America at the outbreak of the Revolution ; politics claimed more attention than formerly , and theology less . With all this inter- course and mutual reaction of the ...
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... feeling to the single clause in Lin- coln's Gettysburg Address , " that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . ” A prominent figure during and after the War of the Revolution was Thomas Paine , or , as he ...
... feeling to the single clause in Lin- coln's Gettysburg Address , " that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . ” A prominent figure during and after the War of the Revolution was Thomas Paine , or , as he ...
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Page 13 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 56 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 193 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 203 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 135 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 203 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen.
Page 56 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Page 99 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so...
Page 49 - Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. Thus, if you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
Page 207 - Did we dare, In our agony of prayer, Ask for more than he has done? When was ever His right hand Over any time or land Stretched as now beneath the sun?