The Principles of the Revolution Vindicated: In a Sermon Preached Before the University of Cambridge, on Wednesday, May 29, 1776 (Classic Reprint)

The Principles of the Revolution Vindicated: In a Sermon Preached Before the University of Cambridge, on Wednesday, May 29, 1776 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Richard Watson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-19

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9780483397200

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Excerpt from The Principles of the Revolution Vindicated: In a Sermon Preached Before the University of Cambridge, on Wednesday, May 29, 1776 Nor has God, in the particular revelations of his will which he hath made, delivered any thing fubverfive of the conclufion here drawn from the contemplation of the general fyltem of nature which he hath formed. When he blelfed Noah and his fons, and faid unto them, he fruitful, and multz'pty, and repleni/h the earth; his benediction was general and equal to the Patri arch and his three fons, and in them, to their refpee'tive pof'ce; rities, by whom the whole earth has been overfpread: and when he further faid, thejetzr of you, and the dread qf you fh'all he upon every heel/z ofthe earth, and upon efveryfofwl of the air, and upon all that mofueth upon the earth, and upon all the fi/hes of the pa, into your hand are they delivered; he did not by this great charter, under which man claims dominion over the other animals of the earth, give any one man dominion over another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Constitutional History of the American Revolution

Constitutional History of the American Revolution

Author: John Phillip Reid

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780299130701

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Brilliantly executed....Reid's central argument is reserved for his contentions about how the American Revolution occurred within the British constitutional framework. Crucial is his assertion that the eighteenth-century British constitution itself was a vital crossroad between the old constitution of 'customary powers, with rights secured as property' and the newer constitution 'of sovereign command and of arbitrary parliamentary supremacy.' The conflict between the two was profound and ultimately irreconcilable as the Americans, with occasional misgivings and uncertainties, sustained the old and Parliament lurched toward the new...This book (has) a compelling intellectual force that deserves the closest scrutiny.' -George M. Curtis III, American Historical Review


Wordsworth's Political Writings

Wordsworth's Political Writings

Author: William Wordsworth

Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 184760076X

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The book includes the Jacobin A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793), infused with the doctrines of Tom Paine; the liberal republican 'prose poem' The Convention of Cintra (1809), the Tory apologetics of Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland (1818), and the welfare-state philosophy of the 1835 Postscript in which Wordsworth married the Coleridgean concept of a society leavened by its 'clerisy' to a devastating critique of laissez-faire 'political economy'. The extensive commentary provided by Owen & Smyser to these texts has been converted to footnotes for ease of use.


Constitutional History of the American Revolution V. 4; Authority of Law

Constitutional History of the American Revolution V. 4; Authority of Law

Author: John Phillip Reid

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2003-03

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780299139841

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This work addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, and the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory.


Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876

Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876

Author: Nicholas Guyatt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-07-23

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1139466283

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Nicholas Guyatt offers a completely new understanding of a central question in American history: how did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations? Tracing the story of American providentialism, this book uncovers the British roots of American religious nationalism before the American Revolution and the extraordinary struggles of white Americans to reconcile their ideas of national mission with the racial diversity of the early republic. Making sense of previously diffuse debates on manifest destiny, millenarianism, and American mission, Providence and the Invention of the United States explains the origins and development of the idea that God has a special plan for America. This conviction supplied the United States with a powerful sense of national purpose, but it also prevented Americans from clearly understanding events and people that could not easily be fitted into the providential scheme.