The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American RevolutionInstitute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1965 - Biography & Autobiography - 247 pages Examines the historical justification for American independence in the writings of the seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers and historians. |
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... century terms . . . his anachronistic sins became a service to the cause of liberty . " In his Second Institutes ... eighteenth century persisted in this instinc- tive turning to the past for both an explanation and a solution to present ...
... century terms . . . his anachronistic sins became a service to the cause of liberty . " In his Second Institutes ... eighteenth century persisted in this instinc- tive turning to the past for both an explanation and a solution to present ...
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... eighteenth- century " Commonwealthmen , " sought to maintain the revolutionary tradition of their seventeenth - century heroes , and in an endless stream of essays and histories ( vastly more popular in ... Eighteenth - Century Colonist 9.
... eighteenth- century " Commonwealthmen , " sought to maintain the revolutionary tradition of their seventeenth - century heroes , and in an endless stream of essays and histories ( vastly more popular in ... Eighteenth - Century Colonist 9.
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... eighteenth - century England nostalgic writers also faced the men- ace of standing armies with all their dreadful associations . History had shown that “ when a country is to be enslaved , the army is the instrument to be used , " and ...
... eighteenth - century England nostalgic writers also faced the men- ace of standing armies with all their dreadful associations . History had shown that “ when a country is to be enslaved , the army is the instrument to be used , " and ...
Contents
ANCIENT AND MEDI | 21 |
TUDORS STUARTS | 40 |
THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL CONSCIENCE | 59 |
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