Belief and Disbelief in American LiteratureTom Paine and republican religion -- Landscape as religion: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- Transcendentalism and Emerson -- The cosmic optimism of Walt Whitman -- The pessimism of Mark Twain -- The cosmic loneliness of Robert Frost. |
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... Catholics second , and the Jews last . There were Jews and Catholics in the colonies from very early times , and ... Catholic and Jewish writers , but the difficulty is inherent in the topic and not of my creating . Another general ...
... Catholics second , and the Jews last . There were Jews and Catholics in the colonies from very early times , and ... Catholic and Jewish writers , but the difficulty is inherent in the topic and not of my creating . Another general ...
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... Catholic mission- ary among the Indians , President John Adams headed a list of subscribers to build the good bishop a church , Cheverus helped to found the Boston Athenaeum , and counted among his friends Harrison Gray Otis , Lemuel ...
... Catholic mission- ary among the Indians , President John Adams headed a list of subscribers to build the good bishop a church , Cheverus helped to found the Boston Athenaeum , and counted among his friends Harrison Gray Otis , Lemuel ...
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... Catholics and the rising tide of anti- Catholic feeling culminating in the temporary triumph of the Know - Nothing Party in the East ; upon the relation of religion to the industrial proletariat in the cities and to slaves in the South ...
... Catholics and the rising tide of anti- Catholic feeling culminating in the temporary triumph of the Know - Nothing Party in the East ; upon the relation of religion to the industrial proletariat in the cities and to slaves in the South ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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