A History of American Literature
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 47 Benjamin Franklin. He also encouraged missionary work among African-American slaves, i ...
48 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods The echo of the Aeneid is an intimation of what Mather is after. He is hoping to link ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 49 then abolished in 1691 when it was replaced by a property qualification. Outside New E ...
50 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods (1825), but it was “published” in the way many manuscripts were at the time, by being ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 51 Byrd, of course, did not have to struggle to acquire wealth, he inherited it. Once he ...
52 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods That description of the horses in the Dismal Swamp comes from The History of the Divid ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 53 the American colonies and the ones being made in other parts. And they were also, and ...
54 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods named or pseudonymous author, like “A Poetical Epistle. Addressed by a Lady of New Jer ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 55 genius of the American Enlightenment, was inclined to dismiss it because it was not im ...
56 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods at English snobbery, preciousness, and self-satisfaction. Cook has taken an English fo ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 57 her over the site of an Aztec place of worship, which it then was. And the first accou ...
58 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods The case is more complicated, however, with the greatest American embodiment of faith ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 59 (1746), for instance, Edwards attempted to construct a clear theory of the place of em ...
60 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods the flames of divine wrath flashing about it,” that are “ready every moment to ... bur ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 61 Mediocrity prevails” – as long as they apply themselves to useful toil. Like the good ...
62 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods By this time, he had also become quite famous thanks to his newspaper, the Pennsylvani ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 63 the Morals and Virtue” of the New World. For Franklin, America really was the land of ...
64 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods At the heart of Letters are three animating beliefs that Crèvecoeur shared with many o ...
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 65 mockery of any talk of a “perfect society” – the general thrust of the book is toward ...
66 The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods major work, The Age of Reason (1794–1795), led to further notoriety and unpopu- larity ...
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