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The power of God , which is a sufficiency in him to produce great effects , must for ever have been dormant and useless as ... as perfectly that he possessed these attributes , if they had never been exerted or expressed in any effect .
The power of God , which is a sufficiency in him to produce great effects , must for ever have been dormant and useless as ... as perfectly that he possessed these attributes , if they had never been exerted or expressed in any effect .
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I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect . Keeping originality always in view — for he is false to himself who ventures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest— I say to myself , in the ...
I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect . Keeping originality always in view — for he is false to himself who ventures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest— I say to myself , in the ...
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My next thought concerned the choice of an impression , or effect , to be conveyed ; and here I may as well observe that , throughout the construction , I kept steadily in view the design of rendering the work universally appreciable .
My next thought concerned the choice of an impression , or effect , to be conveyed ; and here I may as well observe that , throughout the construction , I kept steadily in view the design of rendering the work universally appreciable .
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Contents
The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution | 3 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
ANNE BRADSTREET 1612?1672 | 32 |
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| Title | The American Tradition in Literature: Bradford to Lincoln Norton book Volume 1 of The American Tradition in Literature, Richmond Croom Beatty |
| Editors | Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, Eugene Hudson Long |
| Compiled by | Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, Eugene Hudson Long |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Norton, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 3505 pages |
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