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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
treatment. But how typical of the times is the interpretation, for he goes on to say: That is because the wickedness of youth exhibits itself in so many ways. This most elaborate of colonial pedagogical works is similar in form and purpose to the numerous books on behaviour produced in all European countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it has little of the penetration or urbanity and none of the literary grace of Castiglione or of Chesterfield, or of the good Bishop de la Casa. The most influential as well as most characteristic textbook of the colonial period was The New England Primer, first issued about 1690 by a Boston printer. Constructed on principles borrowed from Comenius's Orbis Pictus and from the Protestant tutor, it was used quite generally throughout the colonies and universally in New England. Countless youth made their way through the alphabet from In Adam's Fall We Sinned All to Zaccheus he Did Climb the Tree, Our Lord to See. To its
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
46 Carleton, H. G., 278 Carleton, Will, 59 Carl Scharnhorst, 580 Carlyle, 6, 42, 108, 117, 126, 340, 456, 488, 489, 491, 570 Carman, Bliss, 51 Carnegie, Andrew, 363 Carnegie School of Technology, 297 Carpenter, E. C., 292 Carroll, Charles, 453 Carson, Kit, 150, 153 Carter, James T., 410 Carter, Mrs., Leslie, 281 Carton, Sidney, 279 Carus, Paul, 585 Carvalho, S. N., 152 Carver, Jonathan, 540 n. Cary, Alice, 47 Cary, Phoebe, 47, 314, 499, 500 Casa, Bishop de la, 391 Casanova, 450 Case of Becky, the, 282 Case of George Dedlow, the, 90 Casey Jones, 512 Cass, 376, 377 Castelhuhn, F. C., 581 Casti, 450 Castiglione, 391 Castilian days, 164 Catalogue of Catlin's Indian Gallery of portraits, 149 Catalogue of curious and valuable books, a., 534 Catherwood, Mary Hartwell, 89, 90 Catlin, George, 148, 149 Catlin's notes of eight years travels, 149 Cato, Dionysius, 445 Cato Major, 445, 538 Cavalier, the, 288