The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... rhetoric , thus enters into a sense of general well - being that all citizens share irrespective of their reli- gious state of mind or preference . One outcome is the widest diffusion of a rhetorical emphasis arising from the ...
... rhetoric , thus enters into a sense of general well - being that all citizens share irrespective of their reli- gious state of mind or preference . One outcome is the widest diffusion of a rhetorical emphasis arising from the ...
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... rhetoric of the secular elite – are the parallelism that makes the triptych possible and the stylistic ingenuity that carries it off . Reason , Providence , and nature exist on the same plane of importance in Franklin's explanation ...
... rhetoric of the secular elite – are the parallelism that makes the triptych possible and the stylistic ingenuity that carries it off . Reason , Providence , and nature exist on the same plane of importance in Franklin's explanation ...
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... rhetoric and frightens leaders at both the national and the state levels . The response of these leaders in 1787 is to divide revolutionary impulses by subsuming one challenge into the other . They neutralize distrust of centralization ...
... rhetoric and frightens leaders at both the national and the state levels . The response of these leaders in 1787 is to divide revolutionary impulses by subsuming one challenge into the other . They neutralize distrust of centralization ...
Contents
What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
Copyright | |
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