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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... deism or to a modification of Christian theology that I can only call Christian deism . Repre- sentatives of this tendency are such figures as Washington , Franklin , Jefferson , and Thomas Paine . When Jamestown was founded , it was ...
... deism or to a modification of Christian theology that I can only call Christian deism . Repre- sentatives of this tendency are such figures as Washington , Franklin , Jefferson , and Thomas Paine . When Jamestown was founded , it was ...
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... deism through book and pamphlet , magazine and meeting ; to him “ Moses , Mahomet , and Jesus can lay as little claim to moral merit , or to the character of the benefactors of mankind , as any three men that ever lived upon the face of ...
... deism through book and pamphlet , magazine and meeting ; to him “ Moses , Mahomet , and Jesus can lay as little claim to moral merit , or to the character of the benefactors of mankind , as any three men that ever lived upon the face of ...
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... deism were the godless Reign of Terror and the satanic Napoleonic Wars . Two years after King's Chapel went ... Deist , and no Christian he ; But from all principle , all virtue free . A little later the Anglo - Irish poet , Thomas Moore ...
... deism were the godless Reign of Terror and the satanic Napoleonic Wars . Two years after King's Chapel went ... Deist , and no Christian he ; But from all principle , all virtue free . A little later the Anglo - Irish poet , Thomas Moore ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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