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Page 53
... interest in the expanding trade of the country lessened the pre- occupation of the Puritans with religion — or shall we say with militant theology ? Even the latitudinarism of the Establishment , though we cannot on that account condone ...
... interest in the expanding trade of the country lessened the pre- occupation of the Puritans with religion — or shall we say with militant theology ? Even the latitudinarism of the Establishment , though we cannot on that account condone ...
Page 324
... interest in humanity , confined to no single type or class , outflowed into an interest in the nation , and from that into all nations as potential partners in a universal commonwealth . 1 Theology in the English Poets . 1874 . Thence ...
... interest in humanity , confined to no single type or class , outflowed into an interest in the nation , and from that into all nations as potential partners in a universal commonwealth . 1 Theology in the English Poets . 1874 . Thence ...
Page 387
... interest in public affairs , 36-38 ; the detached observer , 39 , 40 ; his Whiggism , 41 ; his vision of Nature , 46 , 47 ; his great contemporaries , 55-58 ; his view of social inequalities , 60 ; his courtesy , 61 ; ancestry , 61-63 ...
... interest in public affairs , 36-38 ; the detached observer , 39 , 40 ; his Whiggism , 41 ; his vision of Nature , 46 , 47 ; his great contemporaries , 55-58 ; his view of social inequalities , 60 ; his courtesy , 61 ; ancestry , 61-63 ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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