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... puritan readers are invited to : .. close their eyes and allow their imaginations to play on what is presented to them ; neither , while engaged on this , would dream of questioning the reality of what their imagination provides ...
... puritan readers are invited to : .. close their eyes and allow their imaginations to play on what is presented to them ; neither , while engaged on this , would dream of questioning the reality of what their imagination provides ...
Page 125
... Puritans , and it was a view widely shared by contemporaries . Indeed , contemporaries were so certain that some ... Puritan insistence that only ' improving ' works were fit to be read , turned their attention to the reading of ...
... Puritans , and it was a view widely shared by contemporaries . Indeed , contemporaries were so certain that some ... Puritan insistence that only ' improving ' works were fit to be read , turned their attention to the reading of ...
Page 143
... Puritanism was important in creating an ethic that bound the three realms noted together . The puritan ethic was of obvious economic value . Bell hints that it was also of political service in encouraging people to make their own fates ...
... Puritanism was important in creating an ethic that bound the three realms noted together . The puritan ethic was of obvious economic value . Bell hints that it was also of political service in encouraging people to make their own fates ...
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