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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... Unitarian or a deist and obviously therefore an infidel , slept nightly in the arms of a black mistress . Respectable Boston Unitarianism found itself in a difficult position . It abhorred Jacobinism and voted the Federalist ticket ...
... Unitarian or a deist and obviously therefore an infidel , slept nightly in the arms of a black mistress . Respectable Boston Unitarianism found itself in a difficult position . It abhorred Jacobinism and voted the Federalist ticket ...
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... Unitarian Association in 1825 is a strange , eventful history , nor can I do justice to its complexities . There were Old Light Calvinists and New Light Calvinists , Old Side Presbyte- rians and New Side Presbyterians , orthodox Unitarians ...
... Unitarian Association in 1825 is a strange , eventful history , nor can I do justice to its complexities . There were Old Light Calvinists and New Light Calvinists , Old Side Presbyte- rians and New Side Presbyterians , orthodox Unitarians ...
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... Unitarianism of the Channing sort was making inroads upon trinitarianism in seaboard cities of the Atlantic coast ... Unitarian , had already been made Hollis Professor of Divinity , and by 1819 Harvard College had formally recognized ...
... Unitarianism of the Channing sort was making inroads upon trinitarianism in seaboard cities of the Atlantic coast ... Unitarian , had already been made Hollis Professor of Divinity , and by 1819 Harvard College had formally recognized ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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