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...England in his rich metaphor of an errand into the wilderness. Seeing a play on the word "errand," he has explained how the first Puritan settlers came to America running one sort of errand, for a higher power--the Puritan Church in England--and how they ended the seventeenth century running, necessarily, an errand that was its own cause and justification...
...antiquarian interest? A brochure, first printed in England in 1901, republished in New York in 1903, is now fairly well known to have been written by Mr. G. Lowes Dickinson, the distinguished Hellenist, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Purporting to be Letters From a Chinese Official,on its seventeenth page is this...
...tally was captain Taylor's eighteenth goal and gave him the team scoring lead with 31 points. Johnston's assist was his seventeenth of the season--a phenomenal number for a defenseman...
Heimert currently teaches a course in seventeenth century religious literature, centering on Puritan writings and the response to them in England and American...
...analysis of the Black Muslims, said Epps, should go back to the seventeenth century to take account of a "continuity of the Negro personality" that has barely been recognised. Almost all discussions of American Negro progress focus on the situation of an upper-middle class marked out by E. Franklin Frazier in his book "The Black Bourgeoisie" as bearers of the Negro culture. But the genesis of the Black Muslims, according to Epps, is in the other segment of the community, and it is only because this has not been studied that we can be surprised at the growth...