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... Popular Intelligence . In spite of superstition and religious intolerance - evils belonging to the age- New England was from the start the friend of popular intelligence and social progress . The printing - press was introduced in ...
... Popular Intelligence . In spite of superstition and religious intolerance - evils belonging to the age- New England was from the start the friend of popular intelligence and social progress . The printing - press was introduced in ...
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... popularity , and perhaps expose him to personal violence , he resolutely faced the popular clamor , and boldly vindi- cated the truth . It was only after the lapse of considerable time that he had the satisfaction of seeing the popular ...
... popularity , and perhaps expose him to personal violence , he resolutely faced the popular clamor , and boldly vindi- cated the truth . It was only after the lapse of considerable time that he had the satisfaction of seeing the popular ...
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... popular poem in New England . " God's Contro- versy with New England , " written in a time of great drought , is also in verse . MIDDLE COLONIES WILLIAM LIVINGSTON ( 1723-1790 ) . A statesman , governor of New Jersey 1776-1790 . Author ...
... popular poem in New England . " God's Contro- versy with New England , " written in a time of great drought , is also in verse . MIDDLE COLONIES WILLIAM LIVINGSTON ( 1723-1790 ) . A statesman , governor of New Jersey 1776-1790 . Author ...
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... popular in their day . THOMAS GODFREY ( 1736-1763 ) . First dramatic author in America . Served as a lieutenant in the colonial militia . Author of " Juvenile Poems on Various Subjects with the Prince of Parthia , a Tragedy . " ( See ...
... popular in their day . THOMAS GODFREY ( 1736-1763 ) . First dramatic author in America . Served as a lieutenant in the colonial militia . Author of " Juvenile Poems on Various Subjects with the Prince of Parthia , a Tragedy . " ( See ...
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... popular government , Louis XIV stood for despotism . His attitude toward France is indicated in his famous saying , " L'État c'est moi . " In the second place , the colonization undertaken by the French carried with it the feudal system ...
... popular government , Louis XIV stood for despotism . His attitude toward France is indicated in his famous saying , " L'État c'est moi . " In the second place , the colonization undertaken by the French carried with it the feudal system ...
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