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 36
... mind stands for a while in wonder , then retreats into shameless hyperbole . This chapter makes no attempt to bring perfect order out of the perplexities of Williams's life and mind . Rather , it is a severely limited evaluation of his ...
... mind stands for a while in wonder , then retreats into shameless hyperbole . This chapter makes no attempt to bring perfect order out of the perplexities of Williams's life and mind . Rather , it is a severely limited evaluation of his ...
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... mind - were so casually proclaimed that we would do him a disservice were we to regard them as either the hard core of his thought or his chief contribution to the evolution of democratic thought . Here and there in his writings he ...
... mind - were so casually proclaimed that we would do him a disservice were we to regard them as either the hard core of his thought or his chief contribution to the evolution of democratic thought . Here and there in his writings he ...
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... mind in overly modern terms , for it takes little imagination to picture him as the seventeenth - century prophet of several mo- mentous twentieth - century principles . For one thing , there is evidence that in his comprehension of the ...
... mind in overly modern terms , for it takes little imagination to picture him as the seventeenth - century prophet of several mo- mentous twentieth - century principles . For one thing , there is evidence that in his comprehension of the ...
Contents
Apostle of Soul Liberty | 35 |
A Star of the First Magnitude | 79 |
Herald of Revolution | 116 |
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