Six Characters in Search of a Republic: Studies in the Political Thought of the American ColoniesRevised version of Part II of [the author's] Seedtime of the Republic. |
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Page 58
... English presses , and as an attempt to influence English rather than colonial opinion . Williams did not expound a systematic political theory , and we must search at length through his tracts and letters for ideas that can be properly ...
... English presses , and as an attempt to influence English rather than colonial opinion . Williams did not expound a systematic political theory , and we must search at length through his tracts and letters for ideas that can be properly ...
Page 92
... English translation had been printed in London in 1703 . It is impossible to determine the year in which Wise first came upon Pufendorf's work , or to discover whether his copy was in the Latin original or English translation . A ...
... English translation had been printed in London in 1703 . It is impossible to determine the year in which Wise first came upon Pufendorf's work , or to discover whether his copy was in the Latin original or English translation . A ...
Page 194
... English , were the trustees and beneficiaries of the British Constitu- tion . The English people , it was asserted , had fallen on evil days , and their manifest lapse in morality had infected the best of all possible constitutions . As ...
... English , were the trustees and beneficiaries of the British Constitu- tion . The English people , it was asserted , had fallen on evil days , and their manifest lapse in morality had infected the best of all possible constitutions . As ...
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Apostle of Soul Liberty | 35 |
A Star of the First Magnitude | 79 |
Herald of Revolution | 116 |
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