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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 138 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 38 2 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 30 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 29 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 26 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 18 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 16 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 15 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 10 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 9 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
not, therefore, translate the doxology literally, but chanted among the Hurons, and doubtless at Onondaga, Glory be to our Father, and to his Son, and to their Holy Ghost. <*>beuf, 81. Just so, the savage could not say tree, or house; the Edwards. word must always be accompanied by prefixes defining Duponceau, on Zeisberger, 99. its application. The only pronoun which can, with any plausibility, be called an article, is always blended Eliot, Grammar XV. with the noun. In like manne, have varied in little else. Woman, too, with her gentleness, and the winning enthusiasm of her selfsacrificing benevolence, has attempted their instruction, and has attempted it in vain. St. Mary of the Incarnation succeeded as little as Jonathan Edwards or Brainerd. The Jesuit Stephen de Carheil, revered for his genius, as well as for his zeal, was for more than sixty years, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a missionary among the Huron-Iroquois tribes; he spoke their dialects w
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
ranted. The trust of our race has ever been in the coming of better times. Universal history does out seek to relate the sum of all God's works of prov- Chap. XXIV.} idence. In America, the first conception of its office, in the mind of Jonathan Edwards, though still cramped 1739 and perverted by theological forms not derived from observation, was nobler than the theory of Vico: more grand and general than the method of Bossuet, it embraced in its outline the whole work of redemption, —thehumanity. The meek New England divine, in his quiet association with the innocence and simplicity of rural life, knew that, in every succession of revolutions, the cause of civilization and moral reform is advanced. The new creation— Works of Edwards, II. 377 and 382 such are his words—is more excellent than the old. So it ever is, that when one thing is removed by God to make way for another, the new excels the old.— The wheels of Providence, he adds, are not turned about by blind chance,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., E. (search)
E. Eaton, Theophilus, governor of New Haven, I. 403. Edwards, Jonathan, III. 399. Elizabeth, Queen, I. 282. Eliot, John, II. 94. Endicott, John, I. 341; I. 82. England, its maritime discoveries, I. 7, 75, 76, 80. First attempt to plant a colony, 84. Favors colonization, 118. Early slave trade, 173. Claims Maine and Acadia, 148. Restrictive commercial policy of, 194. The reformation in, 274. Jealous of New England, 405. Its democratic revolution, II. 1. Long parliament, 4. Civil war, 8. Presbyterians and Independents, 9. Cromwell, 19. Restoration, 29. Navigation acts, 42. Royal commissioners for New England, 77. Its history from 1660 to 1688, 434. Clarendon's ministry, 435. The cabal, 435. Shaftesbury's, 436. Danby's, 437. Shaftesbury, 438. Tendency to despotism, 440. Tories and whigs, 443. Its aristocratic revolution, 445; III. 3, 9. War with France, 175. Queen Anne's war, 208. Resolves on colonial con-quests, 219. Sends a fleet into the St