American-Literature
TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND by Anne Bradstreet If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee ...
DISCUSSION BOARD 1 Post questions and comments about this chapter’s readings. REVIEW 1 Check Your Understanding Check Answer Que ...
The Literature of British North America: Political and Religious Identity COLONIAL AMERICA 2 ...
OVERVIEW Key Terms Enlightenment rhetoric ethos logos patho TEXTS & CONTEXTS 2 Colonial America TIMELINE 2 ...
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) did not contain his brilliance to any one field. A renowned ...
From The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin I had been religiously educated as a Presbyterian; and tho’ some of the dogmas of th ...
imagin’d, in a sermon on such a text, we could not miss of having some morality. But he confin’d himself to five points only, as ...
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid ...
13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.+ My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judg’d it would be ...
I determined to give a week’s strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was ...
I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson’s Poems, viz.: + “Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! + ...
I enter’d upon the execution of this plan for self- examination, and continu’d it with occasional intermissions for some time. I ...
exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect charac ...
shown the means and manner of obtaining virtue, which would have distinguished it from the mere exhortation to be good, that doe ...
something that I thought an error, I deny’d myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing immediately some a ...
SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD BY JONATHAN EDWARDS Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a famous and controversial theologian ...
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards So that thus it is, that natural men are held in the hand of God over t ...
rock. Were it not that so is the sovereign pleasure of God, the earth would not bear you one moment; for you are a burden to it; ...
obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. Thus are all you that never passed und ...
O sinner! consider the fearful danger you are in. ’Tis a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of ...
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