| Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 pàgines
...before the Declaration Adams had glimpsed the American possibility: "1 always consider the settlement of America with Reverence and Wonder — as the Opening...Emancipation of the Slavish Part of Mankind all over the Earth."8 This tendency to understand the significance of America in universal terms, shared by all... | |
| Robert A. FERGUSON, Robert A Ferguson - 2009 - 374 pàgines
...(part of God's plan). John Adams summarized the premises involved: "I always considered the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening...emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."28 The same narrative conveniently put the colonies and the colonial speaker at the center of... | |
| Raymond Sullivan - 2006 - 205 pàgines
...Phylosophers of Greece and Rome— / always consider the Settlement of America with Reverence Wonder—as the Opening of a grand scene and Design in Providence,...of the slavish Part of Mankind all over the Earth Thus accomplished were the first Settlers of these Colonies—and as has been said, Tyranny in every... | |
| Dan P. McAdams - 2005 - 402 pàgines
...Adams wrote, "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination...emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."6 Adams used the redemptive discourses of enlightenment and emancipation to describe America's... | |
| Martin Edward Malia - 2006 - 382 pàgines
...revolutionary experience. AMERICA, 1776-1787 Revolution as Great Good Fortune I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design of Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind... | |
| Paul T. McCartney - 2006 - 392 pàgines
...(Ithaca, NY'.: Cornell University Press, 1963). 38. John Adams, for instance, viewed the settlement of America "with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scheme and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish... | |
| Paul T. McCartney - 2006 - 392 pàgines
...(Ithaca, NY'.: Cornell University Press, 1963). 38. John Adams, for instance, viewed the settlement of America "with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scheme and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish... | |
| John E. Hill - 2007 - 290 pàgines
...Adams's perspective in the following diary entry dated February, 1765: "I always consider the settlement of America with Reverence and Wonder — as the Opening...of the slavish part of Mankind all over the Earth. ""'' But, in March, 1779, he wrote Arthur Lee of his fears that "there will be an End of our virtuous... | |
| Lynn Kuntz - 2009 - 86 pàgines
...clear; emancipation means setting free. Remember John Adams? He said, "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening...of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." Patrick Henry made his choice clear: "Give me liberty or give me death!" Stephen Hopkins, a Continental... | |
| Brent Gilchrist - 2006 - 322 pàgines
...the wilderness." John Adams, "with reverence and wonder," expressed his own personal anticipation of "the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence...emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.""7 Alexander Hamilton, the most reasoned member attached to "Publius," rationalized America's... | |
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