| Nicholas Guyatt - 2007 - 341 páginas
...subsequent rise to prominence, confirmed that the American continent was destined to serve a mighty purpose, "as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary...years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety."113 If we imagine American exceptionalism to be a product of American experience, we might... | |
| A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - 1996 - 372 páginas
...draws on the typological traditions of the Puritans, especially Edward Taylor. Paine even suggests that the "Reformation was preceded by the discovery of...years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety" (CW, 21). Indeed, the pamphlet achieves much of its rhetorical power precisely because... | |
| Elsie Begler - 2007 - 319 páginas
...radicals in England and Europe with whom Paine associated. As Paine wrote, referring to America, it is "as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years."8 While this view lost its strictly religious connotations, it did not lose its missionary zeal.... | |
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