Word: couplet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state control of conscience began to lay the groundwork for religious liberty as it is known today. Though the Puritans came to the New World in search of religious freedom, they were not interested in tolerance for anyone else. Typical of 17th Century New England, says Stokes, is a couplet found in the pocket of Massachusetts Governor Joseph Dudley after his death...
...really needs is a pinch of Attic salt. The famous passage about the sun standing still for Joshua needs no interplanetary cataclysm to explain it. It carries its explanation right in the text . . . The chronicler, writing ancient history, comes upon the Book of Jashar and quotes from it the couplet...