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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 . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history : the use of the outer creation , to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation . Every word ...
... spirit . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history : the use of the outer creation , to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation . Every word ...
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... Spirit . It suggests the absolute . It is a perpetual effect . It is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us . The aspect of Nature is devout . Like the figure of Jesus , she stands with bended head , and hands folded upon ...
... Spirit . It suggests the absolute . It is a perpetual effect . It is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us . The aspect of Nature is devout . Like the figure of Jesus , she stands with bended head , and hands folded upon ...
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WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
Of Plymouth Plantation Book II | 20 |
SAMUEL SEWALL 16521730 | 26 |
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