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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.) 4 0 Browse Search
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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.), Chapter 5: philosophers and divines, 1720-1789 (search)
with a rationalistic trend towards universalism. A similar course of thought, but expressed with far higher literary skill, may be pursued in the writings of the Connecticut scholar Samuel Johnson (1696-1772), a graduate of Yale College in 1714, a disciple of George Berkeley when he came to Rhode Island in 1729 and, in 1754, the first head of King's College, Now Columbia University. New York. Especially does Johnson's Elementa Philosophica strike a balance between extremes. Like the Alciphron of Berkeley, to whom the Elements was dedicated, Johnson's work was directed against both fatalists and enthusiasts. The author's situation was logically fortunate. He was familiar with both predestination and fanatical principles and avoided the excesses of each. Brought up in Yale College, under the rigid Rector Clap, he came to dislike the severities of Puritanism. Acquainted with the ways of that strange fellow Whitefield, he was also opposed to the doctrines of grace, as preached
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.), Index. (search)
3 Adulateur, the, 217 Adventures of Captain Bonneville, 210 Adventures of Joseph Andrews, the, 12 Adventures of Robin day, the, 311 Advertisements for the Unexperienced planters of New-England, 17 Advice to such as would remove to America, etc., 101 Afloat and ashore, 302, 305 Ages, the, 262 Agrippa, Letters of, 148 Aiken, G. L., 227 Aimard, Gustave, 325 Akenside, 165, 263, 263 n. A l'abri, 241 Alarm to the legislature of the province of New York, an, 136 Alciphron, 81 Alcott, Amos Bronson, 333, 336-339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 345, 347 Alcott, Louisa May, 337, 338 Alcott, (Mrs. A. Bronson), 338 Alcuin, 288 Alexander Selkirk, 178 n. Algerine Captive, the, 236, 287 Alhambra, the, 239, 257 Allen, Ethan, 310 Allen, Paul, 180, 205 Alnwick Castle, 282 Alsop, George, 151 Alsop, Richard, 164, 165, 175 America, commerce, and freedom, 179 American Company, 217, 218, 219 American democrat, the, 302 American Ethnological Society,