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Patrick Henry

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Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not.

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Patrick Henry

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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience

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Patrick Henry

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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past

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Patrick Henry

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Suffer not yourself to be betrayed with a kiss.

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Patrick Henry

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Sir shall we try argument. Sir we have been trying that for the last ten years

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Patrick Henry

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We have petitioned; we have remonstrate; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne

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Patrick Henry

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We must fight

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Patrick Henry

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An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!

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Patrick Henry

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Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is just God who presides over the destinies of nations

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Patrick Henry

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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave

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Patrick Henry

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There clanking can be heard on the plains of Boston

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Patrick Henry

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The war is inevitable, and let it come

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Patrick Henry

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The war has actually begun

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Patrick Henry

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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

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Patrick Henry

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I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death

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Anne Bradstreet

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If every two were one then surely so are we

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Anne Bradstreet

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Aduei Aduei all is vanity

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Anne Bradstreet

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Thou has a house on high erect, framed by that mighty architect

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Anne Bradstreet

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The world no longer let me love, My hope and treasure lies above

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Anne Bradstreet

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My rambling brat should mother call

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Ben Franklin

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Imitate Jesus and Socrates

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Jonathan Edwards

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That lake of burning brimstone is extended abroad under you

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Jonathan Edwards

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You would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell than a spider's web would have to stop a falling rock.

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Jonathan Edwards

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God hath had it on his heart to show to angels and men both how excellent his love is and also how terrible his wrath is.

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Jonathan Edwards

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This is the dismal case of every soul in this congregation that has not been born again, however moral and strict.

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Thomas Paine

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lost his religion at age 8 because of a Puritan minister

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Thomas Paine

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Coined the phrase "United States of America"

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Thomas Paine

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Died because of Cotton Mather

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Thomas Paine

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Has no known burial spot

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Thomas Paine

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Was called a filthy atheist

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Jonathan Edwards

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Preached during the Great Awakening

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Jonathan Edwards

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was a missionary to the Indians for 8 years

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Jonathan Edwards

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Attended Yale at age 13

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Patrick Henry

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unsuccessful farmer and merchant

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Patrick Henry

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40 years after death until works were pieced together

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Patrick Henry

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his mother took him to hear traveling preachers

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Patrick Henry

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a revolutionary rebel

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Anne Bradstreet

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wrote personal lyrics based on simple topics

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Anne Bradstreet

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brother-in-law published her works

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Anne Bradstreet

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had 8 birds hatched in one nest

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Anne Bradstreet

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the first American poet

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Ben Franklin

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symbol of America

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Ben Franklin

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death led to national mourning

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Ben Franklin

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a secular Puritan

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Thomas Jefferson

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death called the most dramatic coincidence in American history

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Thomas Jefferson

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considered alterations to his writing as "mutilations"

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Thomas Jefferson

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tombstone shows writer's humility

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Thomas Paine

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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value

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Patrick Henry

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Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed by a kiss.

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Ben Franklin

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It was about this time that I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection.

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Jonathan Edwards

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The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhor you, and is dreadfully provoked.

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Anne Bradstreet

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And when I could no longer look I blest His name that gave and took.

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Thomas Paine

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He waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.

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Anne Bradstreet

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Yet by his gift is made thine own; There's wealth enough I need no more.

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Anne Bradstreet

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simple writing style, Puritan, strong Christian

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Jonathan Edwards

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Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

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Jonathan Edwards

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majored on pathos

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Thomas Jefferson

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He has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose own rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions of existence.

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Phyllis Wheatley

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noted for praising revolutionary writers

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Phyllis Wheatley

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And so may you whenever dares disgrace, the land of freedom's heaven-defended Race

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Michel Guillaume De Crevceour

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Name reflects life of sadness. Refused to take sides in Revolutionary War.

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De Crevecour

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He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, received new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds.

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Thomas Paine

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a generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day that my child may have peace."

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Thomas Paine

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These are the times that try men's souls.

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Ben Franklin

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wrote about 13 virtues

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Ben Franklin

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works focus on self-accomplishment

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Abigail Adams

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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.

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Iroquois Confederacy

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Studied by Jefferson and Franklin before the writing of the Constitution

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Iroquois Constitution

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the oldest living constitution

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William Byrd

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so it was now grow the humor to take a trip to America

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William Byrd

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Happy was he, and still happier she, that could get themselves transported, fondly expecting their coarsest utensils in that happy place would be of massy silver.

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William Byrd - the History of the Dividing Line

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Here all the women were old and ugly, having claws like a panther...

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Abigail Adams

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Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

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Ben Franklin

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There is no little enemy.

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John Adams

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As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh.

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John Adams

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completely subject to the despotism of the petticoat

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

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Phillis Wheatley

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Slave who was kidnapped, then bought by the Wheatley family who let her be educated with their children. One of the only slaves who wrote poetry.

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Phyllis Wheatley

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spent time in jail and died alone in a boarding house.

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Philip Freneau

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The poet of the American Revolution

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Philip Freneau

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Writes in alternating line rhymes

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Philip Freneau

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Froze to death

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Philip Freneau

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Bespeak the nature of the soul, Activity, that knows no rest.

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Philip Freneau

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And Reason's self shall bow the knee to shadows and delusions here.

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Philip Freneau

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If nothing once, you nothing lose, for when you die you are the same.

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Philip Freneau

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The space between is but an hour, the frail duration of flower.

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Michel Guillaume De Crevceour

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Name reflects a life of sadness, refused to take sides in the Revolutionary War

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De Crevecour

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He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners.....

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De Crevecour

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First one to write about America as the land of opportunity

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DeCrevcoeur

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Formerly they were not numbered in any civil lists of their country except in those of the poor; here they rank of citizens.

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DeCrevcoeur

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Gave the farmer's perspective on coming to America

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Total depravity -we sin Unconditional election - God choses Limited atonement - Jesus died for the chosen Irresistible grace - if you were chosen you have no choice Perseverance of the saints - you can't lose faith

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Tulip

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Deist

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God created but left creation to man's charge

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Puritan

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a person strict in doctrine and purity

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Thomas Jefferson

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He has; he has referring to King George III

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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He has; he has referring to man as a whole

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Thomas Jefferson

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His audience was the world; he showed the world why America was leaving Great Britain

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Patrick Henry

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Audience was wealthy, smart people

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Patrick Henry

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majored more on logos than on pathos

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Patrick Henry

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imagry, parallel structure, allusions

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Thomas Paine

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"Summer soldiers and sunshine patriots"

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Bradstreet, Edwards

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Calvanists

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Jefferson and Franklin

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Deists

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anybody

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Ben Franklin's audience

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DeCrevecour

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The American ought therefore to love his country much better than that......

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DeCrevecour

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Gave 3 reasons to love America

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injured and usurpations on the part of mankind towards women having in direct object the establishment of tyranny over her.

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Phyllis Wheatley

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Talks about goddesses and wrote in couplets

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Thomas Paine

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Wrote Common Sense and The Age of Reason Used pathos and ethos but very little logos.

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Thomas Paine

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Called the King of Britain a highwayman

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Thomas Jefferson

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Did not like the Indians

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