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  • founding. Born to a candlemaker in Puritan Boston, he became a wealthy ... #039;s sense of exceptionalism – the Puritan and biblical image of "a ...
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  • not a crime ... despite the best efforts of our puritan tribe to make it all three. Homosexuality is as natural as heterosexuality. Notice I use the ...
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  • though only a tiny percentage of Americans have Puritan ancestors. Another theory suggests that the exodus describes the historical expulsion ...
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  • insights into symbolism, Transcendentalism and the Puritan sensibility, were a significant factor in the revival of the reputation of Herman Melville ...
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  • Oregon Monthly. In a small city steeped in "puritan moralism," she was the first to wear rouge on campus; she had multiple boyfriends, and ...
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  • of this theological point of view was the Puritan-American preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). Edwards believed that indeterminism ...
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  • preacher, Cornelis Trigland, a follower of the very puritan theologian Gisbertus Voetius, was chosen to daily instruct the prince in the state religion ...
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  • They deliberately chose a fairly sober, puritan lifestyle. They favored a liberal economy and the abolition of old regulations, and advocated ...
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  • them to break the harassing chains of Puritan tradition. George Sylvester Viereck, The Candle and the Flame (Legare Street Press, 2022 (original ...
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  • Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (January 6, 1741 – December 15, 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature in the ...
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  • England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and is located to the ...
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  • Seeger called "enormously Christian, in the Puritan, Calvinist New England tradition,"David King Dunaway, How Can I Keep From Singing (Villard ...
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  • * Nazarbaev, Nursultan. Epicenter of Peace. Hollis, NH: Puritan Press, 2001. ISBN 1884186130 * Nazpary, Joma. Post-soviet Chaos: Violence and ...
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  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a state located off the ...
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