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... early and powerfully to the message of the British Romantics ; and he later studied German , Spanish , and Portuguese verse . He had been familiar with New England Calvinism in his youth , primarily through his mother's family , the ...
... early and powerfully to the message of the British Romantics ; and he later studied German , Spanish , and Portuguese verse . He had been familiar with New England Calvinism in his youth , primarily through his mother's family , the ...
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... early republic still prompted him . Somehow , evidence and experience to the contrary , reasonable men could stand in the center of their environment and direct it toward some higher good . Somehow - all violence , tyranny , greed , and ...
... early republic still prompted him . Somehow , evidence and experience to the contrary , reasonable men could stand in the center of their environment and direct it toward some higher good . Somehow - all violence , tyranny , greed , and ...
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... Early nineteenth - century sermons by Jedediah Morse and Lyman Beecher illustrate the perseverance of this form . For further information upon the structure of the sermon see Perry Miller , The New England Mind : The Seventeenth Century ...
... Early nineteenth - century sermons by Jedediah Morse and Lyman Beecher illustrate the perseverance of this form . For further information upon the structure of the sermon see Perry Miller , The New England Mind : The Seventeenth Century ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
Copyright | |
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