Early American WritingPenguin, 1. feb. 1994 - 672 sider Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature—including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... human specimens that confronted them on the beaches of the Americas, people who, as the Italian cleric Peter Martyr (1455–1526) described them, “go naked . . . know neither weights nor measures, nor that source of all misfortunes, money ...
... human specimens that confronted them on the beaches of the Americas, people who, as the Italian cleric Peter Martyr (1455–1526) described them, “go naked . . . know neither weights nor measures, nor that source of all misfortunes, money ...
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... humanity was orderly. When the Spanish arrived “from the east,” all changed: Then Christianity also began. The fulfillment of its prophecy is ascribed to the east . . . Then with the true God, the true Dios, came the beginning of our ...
... humanity was orderly. When the Spanish arrived “from the east,” all changed: Then Christianity also began. The fulfillment of its prophecy is ascribed to the east . . . Then with the true God, the true Dios, came the beginning of our ...
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... human effort, cannot be mediated either by the Church through its possession of the sacraments or by tradition through the transmission of correct doctrine; that the sole authority for the spiritual deliverance this faith brings is not ...
... human effort, cannot be mediated either by the Church through its possession of the sacraments or by tradition through the transmission of correct doctrine; that the sole authority for the spiritual deliverance this faith brings is not ...
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... human creatures, still, God had not left human beings without evidence of His will. That evidence was to be found in the two covenants He had made with his people. The first was the covenant God had forged with Adam, based on works ...
... human creatures, still, God had not left human beings without evidence of His will. That evidence was to be found in the two covenants He had made with his people. The first was the covenant God had forged with Adam, based on works ...
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... human beings. John Locke (1632–1704) subsequently determined, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), that the ideas we think come not from the human mind itself but from the experience of our senses, which initially register ...
... human beings. John Locke (1632–1704) subsequently determined, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), that the ideas we think come not from the human mind itself but from the experience of our senses, which initially register ...
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Michel de Montaigne 15331592 | |
Michael Drayton 15631631 | |
Samuel de Champlain 15671635 | |
John Smith 15801631 | |
William Bradford 15901657 | |
Fray Carlos José Delgado 1677c 1750 | |
Benjamin Franklin 17061790 | |
Elizabeth Ashbridge 17131755 | |
John Woolman 17201772 | |
Chief Logan | |
Chief Pachgantschilias | |
Thomas Jefferson 17341826 | |
Thomas Paine 17371809 | |
Thomas Morton 1579?1647 | |
Ann Hutchinson 15911643 | |
Anne Bradstreet 1612?1672 | |
Roger Williams 16131683 | |
Michael Wigglesworth 16311705 | |
Edward Taylor 1644?1729 | |
Samuel Sewall 16521730 | |
Sarah Kemble Knight 16661727 | |
Robert Beverley c 16731722 | |
Abigail Adams 17441818 | |
Hugh Henry Brackenridge 17481816 | |
The Federalist Papers 17871788 | |
Timothy Dwight 17521817 | |
Joel Barlow 17541812 | |
Royall Tyler 17571826 | |
Susanna Haswell Rowson 1762?1824 | |
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