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... spirit of metropolitan sophistication . The Enlightenment and its rationalistic spirit infused the minds and the acts of American leaders . Earlier religious mysti- cisms , local in character , were now overlaid by larger concerns for ...
... spirit of metropolitan sophistication . The Enlightenment and its rationalistic spirit infused the minds and the acts of American leaders . Earlier religious mysti- cisms , local in character , were now overlaid by larger concerns for ...
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... spirit speaks to the individual , and strives to lead back the individual to it . When we consider Spirit , we see that the views already presented do not include the whole circumference of man . We must add some related thoughts ...
... spirit speaks to the individual , and strives to lead back the individual to it . When we consider Spirit , we see that the views already presented do not include the whole circumference of man . We must add some related thoughts ...
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... Spirit alters , moulds , makes it . The immobility or bruteness of nature , is the absence of spirit ; to pure spirit , it is fluid , it is volatile , it is obedient . Every spirit builds itself a house ; and bevond its house a world ...
... Spirit alters , moulds , makes it . The immobility or bruteness of nature , is the absence of spirit ; to pure spirit , it is fluid , it is volatile , it is obedient . Every spirit builds itself a house ; and bevond its house a world ...
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The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution | 3 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
Showing How they Sought out a place | 20 |
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