Early American WritingPenguin, 01/02/1994 - 672 páginas Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature—including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... never confused the freedom to elect the person with the duties proscribed for the office. Thus John Cotton (1584–1652) reminded Lord Say and Seal that if people were free to choose their governors, they were not by that fact free to ...
... never confused the freedom to elect the person with the duties proscribed for the office. Thus John Cotton (1584–1652) reminded Lord Say and Seal that if people were free to choose their governors, they were not by that fact free to ...
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... never reached the crossroads store. Putting up at the tavern, he found himself drinking too much rum. And there were willing girls, he heard, who had lost their virtue and would be glad to help him lose his. Usually he returned to the ...
... never reached the crossroads store. Putting up at the tavern, he found himself drinking too much rum. And there were willing girls, he heard, who had lost their virtue and would be glad to help him lose his. Usually he returned to the ...
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... never been devised explicitly to confront. A situation that American writers could in no way manage to avoid and one that all of the forms that slowly evolved from their need to give verbal expression to their experiences on this ...
... never been devised explicitly to confront. A situation that American writers could in no way manage to avoid and one that all of the forms that slowly evolved from their need to give verbal expression to their experiences on this ...
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... never constituted more than a small minority, mainly of learned men, but they were to have an enormous impact not only on the reconstitution of intellectual culture in the United States but also on the shaping of its political, social ...
... never constituted more than a small minority, mainly of learned men, but they were to have an enormous impact not only on the reconstitution of intellectual culture in the United States but also on the shaping of its political, social ...
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... never seen anything like you.” Then Raven looked at Man, and was still more surprised to find that this strange new being was so much like himself in shape. Then he told Man to walk away a few steps, and in astonishment exclaimed again ...
... never seen anything like you.” Then Raven looked at Man, and was still more surprised to find that this strange new being was so much like himself in shape. Then he told Man to walk away a few steps, and in astonishment exclaimed again ...
Índice
Michel de Montaigne 15331592 | |
Michael Drayton 15631631 | |
Samuel de Champlain 15671635 | |
John Smith 15801631 | |
William Bradford 15901657 | |
Fray Carlos José Delgado 1677c 1750 | |
Benjamin Franklin 17061790 | |
Elizabeth Ashbridge 17131755 | |
John Woolman 17201772 | |
Chief Logan | |
Chief Pachgantschilias | |
Thomas Jefferson 17341826 | |
Thomas Paine 17371809 | |
Thomas Morton 1579?1647 | |
Ann Hutchinson 15911643 | |
Anne Bradstreet 1612?1672 | |
Roger Williams 16131683 | |
Michael Wigglesworth 16311705 | |
Edward Taylor 1644?1729 | |
Samuel Sewall 16521730 | |
Sarah Kemble Knight 16661727 | |
Robert Beverley c 16731722 | |
Abigail Adams 17441818 | |
Hugh Henry Brackenridge 17481816 | |
The Federalist Papers 17871788 | |
Timothy Dwight 17521817 | |
Joel Barlow 17541812 | |
Royall Tyler 17571826 | |
Susanna Haswell Rowson 1762?1824 | |
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