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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... Jews last . There were Jews and Catholics in the colonies from very early times , and Catholicism and Judaism have of ... Jewish writers , but the difficulty is inherent in the topic and not of my creating . Another general observation ...
... Jews last . There were Jews and Catholics in the colonies from very early times , and Catholicism and Judaism have of ... Jewish writers , but the difficulty is inherent in the topic and not of my creating . Another general observation ...
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... Jewish Church , by the Roman Church , by the Greek Church , by the Turkish Church , by the Protestant Church , nor by any church that I know of . My own mind is my own church . All national institutions of churches , whether Jewish ...
... Jewish Church , by the Roman Church , by the Greek Church , by the Turkish Church , by the Protestant Church , nor by any church that I know of . My own mind is my own church . All national institutions of churches , whether Jewish ...
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... Jews was a kind of republic except when the Almighty inter- vened . When the Jews proposed to make a king of Gideon , that hero refused , saying the Lord would reign over them ; but when monarchy was established despite the protests of ...
... Jews was a kind of republic except when the Almighty inter- vened . When the Jews proposed to make a king of Gideon , that hero refused , saying the Lord would reign over them ; but when monarchy was established despite the protests of ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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