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Background of the American Revolution No one can understand the foundations of the American nation without understanding the Protestant Reformation—in particular the Dissenters (or Puritans) who...
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American Thought Cotton Mather, a month after his eighteenth birthday, asks God for help with his speech impediment the day before he preaches a Sabbath sermon. He also writes down his daily...
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Weekly Story During King Philip’s War, an old English Civil War commander makes an appearance. The people instantly betook themselves to their arms, which, according to the custom of the times,...
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SONNET XIX. On His Blindness. ————— WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my...
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Freedom of Religion William Bradford, Governor of the Plymouth Plantation, relates their reasons for leaving the Old World. The other partie, though under many colours & pretences, endevored to...
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Western Thought In 1709 Isaac Watts writes a two-part sermon on Christian courage. To illustrate the first section he writes a still popular hymn. Where the life or the estate of our neighbour is...
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