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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... course of things was in general right , but he told R. H. Dana in 1848 that he did not think any political change would create a paradise on earth and that , even if in the course of time republican institutions prevailed , unless we ...
... course of things was in general right , but he told R. H. Dana in 1848 that he did not think any political change would create a paradise on earth and that , even if in the course of time republican institutions prevailed , unless we ...
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... course of things because the course of things is somehow supremely directed , probably by divinity . Such , at any rate , is what I make of the hymn of Cleanthes , which addresses Zeus as the sovereign of nature and says , among other ...
... course of things because the course of things is somehow supremely directed , probably by divinity . Such , at any rate , is what I make of the hymn of Cleanthes , which addresses Zeus as the sovereign of nature and says , among other ...
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... course with my kind was pleasant , was painful to break off , provided that the companion was brave and honest . These admirable virtues in the natural man are , of course , not found in all Indians or all woodmen , but neither Cooper ...
... course with my kind was pleasant , was painful to break off , provided that the companion was brave and honest . These admirable virtues in the natural man are , of course , not found in all Indians or all woodmen , but neither Cooper ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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