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1 online resource (viii, 425 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction: Enlightenment and religion between Scotland and America -- "A road to distinction very different from that of his more successful companions": Augustinian piety in Witherspoon's Scotland -- "Of local and temporary reformation, local and occasional depravation": Kirk divisions and American prospects at midcentury -- "The bulwark of the religion and liberty of America": Presbyterian revivalism and American higher education before Witherspoon -- "All the conclusions drawn from these principles must be vague": American moral philosophy after Witherspoon -- "When their fathers have fallen asleep": domestic culture, public virtue, and the power of language -- "Every one of them full of the old Cameronian resisting sentiments": piety, Anglo-Scottish union, and American independence -- "How far the magistrate ought to interfere in matters of religion": public faith and the ambiguity of political representation after 1776 -- "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man": John Witherspoon, James Madison, and the American Zion": Presbyterian moral philosophy and educational conflict during the nineteenth century |
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"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794.
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Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794
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Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794 |
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United States. Declaration of Independence -- Signers -- Biography
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United States. Continental Congress -- History
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Princeton University -- History -- 18th century
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Princeton University |
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United States. Continental Congress |
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Declaration of Independence (United States) fast |
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Presbyterian Church -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography
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Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
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Church and state -- United States -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Church and state
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Politics and government
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Presbyterian Church -- Clergy
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Statesmen
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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| ISBN |
9781469628202 |
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1469628201 |
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