Author: Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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The Eighteenth Century
Author: Brief History of English and American Literature
Author: Henry Augustin BeersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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A history of the English Baptists
Author: Joseph IvimeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptism
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Three Restoration Divines
Author: Irène SimonPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782251662138
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Inventing Eden
Author: Zachary McLeod HutchinsPublisher:
ISBN: 0199998140
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
As Christopher Columbus surveyed lush New World landscapes, he eventually concluded that he had rediscovered the biblical garden from which God expelled Adam and Eve. Reading the paradisiacal rhetoric of Columbus, John Smith, and other explorers, English immigrants sailed for North America full of hope. However, the rocky soil and cold winters of New England quickly persuaded Puritan and Quaker colonists to convert their search for a physical paradise into a quest for Eden's less tangible perfections: temperate physiologies, intellectual enlightenment, linguistic purity, and harmonious social relations. Scholars have long acknowledged explorers' willingness to characterize the North American terrain in edenic terms, but Inventing Eden pushes beyond this geographical optimism to uncover the influence of Genesis on the iconic artifacts, traditions, and social movements that shaped seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American culture. Harvard Yard, the Bay Psalm Book, and the Quaker use of antiquated pronouns like thee and thou: these are products of a seventeenth-century desire for Eden. So, too, are the evangelical emphasis of the Great Awakening, the doctrine of natural law popularized by the Declaration of Independence, and the first United States judicial decision abolishing slavery. From public nudity to Freemasonry, a belief in Eden affected every sphere of public life in colonial New England and, eventually, the new nation. Spanning two centuries and surveying the work of English and colonial thinkers from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Anne Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin, Inventing Eden is the history of an idea that shaped American literature, identity, and culture.
Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706
Author: George Lincoln BurrPublisher:
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Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Dr. John Walker and the Sufferings of the Clergy (Classic Reprint)
Author: G. B. TathamPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334730658
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Excerpt from Dr. John Walker and the Sufferings of the Clergy The object of the present work is on a far more modest scale. I have attempted to give an account of the circumstances in which the Sufierings of the Clergy was written, the materials of which the author was able to avail himself, and the manner in which he used them. I have not alluded in detail to the points on which his conclusions may be corrected or modified in the light of the fuller information now at our disposal, because, as it seemed to me, the results of such a review could be more suitably embodied in a separate account of the period. My purpose has been rather to indicate the point of View from which Walker set out and his equipment for the task. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
In the Steps of John Bunyan
Author: Vera BrittainPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331239918
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Excerpt from In the Steps of John Bunyan: An Excursion Into Puritan England It would be as logical to transform Joan Of Arc into a hospital almoner or police-court probation Officer. Puritan preacher or Catholic saint, the prophetic Child Of nature speaks a different language from that Of the earnest educator and the trained social worker. A few critics have gone to the other extreme, for the great will always have their detractors among the small. Inspired by a com prehensible reaction against the moralists, they have endeavoured to present John Bunyan as a species Of village idiot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
An Outline Sketch of English Literature
Author: Henry Augustin BeersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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An Outline Sketch of American Literature
Author: Henry Augustin BeersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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