American Heritage: An Anthology and Interpertive Survey of Our LiteratureLeon Howard |
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... idea of the harmony of the universe , it is the same as calling God by the name of harmony , for there could be no harmony without regulation , and no regulation without a regulator , which is expressive of the idea of a God . Nor could ...
... idea of the harmony of the universe , it is the same as calling God by the name of harmony , for there could be no harmony without regulation , and no regulation without a regulator , which is expressive of the idea of a God . Nor could ...
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... Idea is freedom , natural rights . Ac- cordingly , the work providentially laid out for us to do seems this : to organize the rights of man . This is a problem hitherto unattempted on a na- tional scale in human history . Often enough ...
... Idea is freedom , natural rights . Ac- cordingly , the work providentially laid out for us to do seems this : to organize the rights of man . This is a problem hitherto unattempted on a na- tional scale in human history . Often enough ...
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... ideas vast as the Mississippi , strong as the Alleghanies , and awful as Niagara ; they come murmuring little of the past but , moving in the brightness of their great Idea , and casting its light far on to other lands and distant days ...
... ideas vast as the Mississippi , strong as the Alleghanies , and awful as Niagara ; they come murmuring little of the past but , moving in the brightness of their great Idea , and casting its light far on to other lands and distant days ...
Contents
PART ONE THE WESTWARD COURSE OF EMPIRE | 1 |
ROGER WILLIAMS | 31 |
RICHARD MATHER | 47 |
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American Anne Bradstreet appeared arms beauty better breath called cause character Christ church colonies Cotton Mather cried death Deerslayer divine door doth dreadful earth England English Ethan Brand evil eyes faith fancy father fear fire Fitz-Greene Halleck flowers friends Giovanni give God's hand happiness hath head heard heart heaven human Increase Mather Indians JEAN DE CRÈVECOEUR king labor land liberty Ligeia light live look Lord manner Martha Carrier matter Maypole means ment Merry Mount mind moral nation nature ness never Nevermore night o'er passion person Philip Pain poem poet poor prayer Puritan Quaker reason religion Rip Van Winkle round seemed soul spirit stood sweet thee things thou thought tion took trees true truth turn unto verse voice whole wild words young