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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 3: the Puritan divines, 1620-1720 (search)
e press was closed. In the preface to The gospel order revived, by T. Woodbridge and other malcontents, published in New York in 1700, The Reader is desired to take Notice that the Press in Boston is so much under the aw of the Reverend Author, whom we answer, and his Friends, that we could not obtain of the Printer there to print the following Sheets, which is the true Reason why we have sent the Copy so far for its Impression and where it was printed with some Difficulty. When James Franklin spoke out roundly against the tyranny of the ministers, they induced the magistrates to teach him respect by throwing him into the common gaol. It was a serious matter to offend the hierarchy, even in the days of its decline, and far more serious to attack. But the days of its domination were numbered, and after 1720 the secular authority of the Puritan divines swiftly decayed. The old dream of a Kingdom of God was giving way, under pressure of economic circumstance, to the new dream
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 4: Edwards (search)
God. his preaching. the great Awakening. narrative of surprising Conversions. thoughts on the revival of religion. marks of a work of the true spirit. treatise concerning religious affections. the quarrel with the Northampton congregation. Stockbridge. President of the College of New Jersey. death. the relations of Edwards to the deistic controversy. the freedom of the will Jonathan Edwards was born at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1703. He belonged, unlike his great contemporary Franklin in this, to the Brahmin families of America, his father being a distinguished graduate of Harvard and a minister of high standing, his mother being the daughter of Solomon Stoddard, a revered pastor of Northampton, Massachusetts, and a religious author of repute. Jonathan, one of eleven children, showed extraordinary precocity. There is preserved a letter of his, written apparently in his twelfth year, in which he retorts upon certain materialistic opinions of his correspondent with an ea
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 7: colonial newspapers and magazines, 1704-1775 (search)
rned to the spectacle of the actual life about them, and, to convey it, sought their models in the world of letters so little known in the colonies. It was James Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's older brother, who first made a news sheet something more than a garbled mass of stale items, taken from the Gazetts and other Publick Prrary precedent. For instead of filling the first page of the Courant with the tedious conventionalities of governors' addresses to provincial legislatures, James Franklin's club wrote essays and satirical letters after the manner of The Spectator just ten years after the first appearance of The Spectator in London. How novel te, Prior, and Dryden would also have been looked for in vain. Milton himself was little known in the stronghold of Puritanism. But the printing office of James Franklin had Shakespeare, Milton, Addison, Steele, Cowley, Butler's Hudibras, and The Tail of the Tub The spelling of the Courant. on its shelves. All these were rea
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)
onel, Thomas, 217 Foster, Mrs., Hannah Webster, 285 Fothergill, Dr., John, 195 Four elements, constitutions, ages of man, and seasons of the year, 154 Fourier, 339, 340 Fox, George, 8 Foxe, North-West, 2 Francesca da Rimini, 223, 224, 225, 232 Francis, Convers, 333 Franklin, Abiah Folger, 92 Franklin, Benjamin, 57, 81, 85, 90-110, 112, I13,114, 115, I16, 17, 21, 122, 134, 139, 140, 140 n., 141, 142, 144, 146, 151, 161, 177, 195, 198, 199, 225, 233, 284, 301 Franklin, James, 55, 93, 94, I12 Franklin, Josiah, 92 Fraternal Discord, 219 Free thoughts on the proceedings of the Continental Congress, 136 Freedom of the will, 65, 66 Fremont, J. C., 212 Freneau, Philip, 139, 164, 166, 167, 169, 174, 178, 180-183, 212,261 Friendly address to all Reasonable Americans, a, 138 Frobisher, Martin, 2 Froissart, 316 Fruitlands, 338, 340 Fall Vindication of the Measures of the Congress, etc., A, 137 Fuller, Margaret, 333, 340, 341, 342-343, 34