The Other John Adams, 1705-1740"Adams was more successful as a writer than as a clergyman. As a poet, he wrote a series of generally impressive personal poems, crafted effective images, created a memorable melancholiac, composed a substantial poem in the Blackmorean mode, and translated parts of the Bible and Horace. Most of his poems were collected and published post-humously under his name in 1745. With his uncle Matthew Adams and Mather Byles, John Adams participated in Proteus Echo, the second essay series to appear in American newspapers. Franklin's Dogood papers were the first. In his essays, Adams is most important as a literary theorist, especially when addressing how much, if at all, authors should compromise their values in order to please readers. He encourages politeness and social interaction and criticizes boring ministers, thus evincing the changing social dynamics of the time. The advice to the love-lorn column might have originated in one of his contributions to Proteus Echo."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... literary bent , under his own name he published only an ordinary sermon . He died in his mid thirties . Why write a book about this man un- known to us ? Adams's importance derives from events that occurred during the decade of the ...
... literary bent , under his own name he published only an ordinary sermon . He died in his mid thirties . Why write a book about this man un- known to us ? Adams's importance derives from events that occurred during the decade of the ...
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... literary vanguard of the day and par- ticipated in a religious conflict that was part of the evolving Con- gregational discussion over doctrine . He reflected and contributed to the changing cultural realities of the 1720s . A dis ...
... literary vanguard of the day and par- ticipated in a religious conflict that was part of the evolving Con- gregational discussion over doctrine . He reflected and contributed to the changing cultural realities of the 1720s . A dis ...
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... literary essays ( including some poems ) published in Samuel Kneeland's New - England Weekly Journal and modeled on The Spectator and The Tatler . Also in 1727 , he moved to Newport , Rhode Island , to assist Nathaniel Clap at the ...
... literary essays ( including some poems ) published in Samuel Kneeland's New - England Weekly Journal and modeled on The Spectator and The Tatler . Also in 1727 , he moved to Newport , Rhode Island , to assist Nathaniel Clap at the ...
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Page 108 - If any man shall ADD UNTO THESE THINGS, GOD SHALL ADD UNTO HIM THE PLAGUES THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK: and if any man shall TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORDS OF THE BOOK OF THIS PROPHECY, GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE AND OUT OF THE HOLY CITY, AND FROM THE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK.
Page 101 - PRAISE ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD -*- from the heavens : praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels : praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon : praise him, all ye stars of light.
Page 47 - To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Page 32 - And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Page 27 - But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
Page 101 - Praise ye him sun and moon : praise him all ye stars of light. Praise him ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens ; let them praise the name of the Lord ; for he commanded, and they were created.
Page 34 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 98 - Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
Page 33 - Therefore thus saith the LORD, "If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shall stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.