Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards: Selections from Their WritingsC. Scribner's Sons, 1920 - 368 pages |
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Page x
... England to the apostolic virtues of its first century , as he might have said ; or to drive New England back to the dusky , witch - haunted forests wherein the first settlers had lived , body and soul , as Franklin might have preferred ...
... England to the apostolic virtues of its first century , as he might have said ; or to drive New England back to the dusky , witch - haunted forests wherein the first settlers had lived , body and soul , as Franklin might have preferred ...
Page xiii
... England at the age of twenty with Edwards ' long list of " Things to Be Considered , or Written Fully About . " Franklin , of course , was gayer , more attentive to human traits and singularities , but nothing visible eluded his ...
... England at the age of twenty with Edwards ' long list of " Things to Be Considered , or Written Fully About . " Franklin , of course , was gayer , more attentive to human traits and singularities , but nothing visible eluded his ...
Page xvii
... England finally behind him for an ampler scene and regions more tolerant . The divergence between them after 1723 will appear from a comparison of their two courtships , which may be said to have begun in that year . At least , it was ...
... England finally behind him for an ampler scene and regions more tolerant . The divergence between them after 1723 will appear from a comparison of their two courtships , which may be said to have begun in that year . At least , it was ...
Page xviii
... England sermon of 1730 had lost some of its terrors , particularly its heroic dimensions and immense anathemas , and had fallen to meaner levels , it was a proved instrument for the hand that could wield it . Edwards had therefore ...
... England sermon of 1730 had lost some of its terrors , particularly its heroic dimensions and immense anathemas , and had fallen to meaner levels , it was a proved instrument for the hand that could wield it . Edwards had therefore ...
Page xix
... England at the time found important : that out of the forests of Hampshire County had come a beautiful young saint to lift up a decaying doctrine , to renew a waning cause . And nothing was more natural than that , two years later ...
... England at the time found important : that out of the forests of Hampshire County had come a beautiful young saint to lift up a decaying doctrine , to renew a waning cause . And nothing was more natural than that , two years later ...
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