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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... church . Thus the Rev. John Cotton wrote : It is better that the commonwealth be fashioned to the setting forth of God's house , which is his church : than to accommodate the church frame to the civill state . Democracy , I do not ...
... church . Thus the Rev. John Cotton wrote : It is better that the commonwealth be fashioned to the setting forth of God's house , which is his church : than to accommodate the church frame to the civill state . Democracy , I do not ...
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... 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 , Christian ...
... 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 , Christian ...
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... church calling on his congregation to arrest a shriek- ing female slave ; and in another poem , " The Haschisch , " argues that pro - slavery sentiment acted like a drug on Protestant minis- ters . Southern writers in turn denounced ...
... church calling on his congregation to arrest a shriek- ing female slave ; and in another poem , " The Haschisch , " argues that pro - slavery sentiment acted like a drug on Protestant minis- ters . Southern writers in turn denounced ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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