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 73
... experience that liberty without law and government without authority are swamps in which true freedom sinks without a trace . Rights and duties . Along with this clear - eyed apology for authority went another of Williams's pragmatic ...
... experience that liberty without law and government without authority are swamps in which true freedom sinks without a trace . Rights and duties . Along with this clear - eyed apology for authority went another of Williams's pragmatic ...
Page 76
... experience ; if it has been learned through experience , so much the sounder . To this extent at least Williams was the first American political thinker . VIII Roger Williams died in Providence some time between January 27 and March 15 ...
... experience ; if it has been learned through experience , so much the sounder . To this extent at least Williams was the first American political thinker . VIII Roger Williams died in Providence some time between January 27 and March 15 ...
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... Experience Mayhew and his wife Remember , daughter of Shearjashub Bourne of Sandwich . The May- hews of the Vineyard were a family " respectable in all its stages . " Jonathan's great - great - grandfather , Thomas May- hew , had ...
... Experience Mayhew and his wife Remember , daughter of Shearjashub Bourne of Sandwich . The May- hews of the Vineyard were a family " respectable in all its stages . " Jonathan's great - great - grandfather , Thomas May- hew , had ...
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Apostle of Soul Liberty | 35 |
A Star of the First Magnitude | 79 |
Herald of Revolution | 116 |
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