Quiz1(Bay Psalm&Roger Williams) Flashcards
The essential principle in translating was to ?
translate literally without embellishment.
Which book was the first book that printed in this country.It was popular and the 1651 edition remained in common use in New England churches for nearly 150 years.
The Bay psalm book
How many stanza per verse and how many lines in stanza that the translators represented ?
each verse with one stanza and preferred stanzas of four lines.
The language is described as a?
simple
How many that the possible number of syllables per line is
It is 6 or 8
His belief in Separation of What ?has been influential among religious and political conservatives of his day.(Roger Williams)
Church and State
After leaving the Bay colony he started what is now?(Roger Williams)
Rhode Island.
What did he do that although remaining outside any formal church for the last four decades of his life ?
he continued to preach among the Indians.
He believed that religious conviction does not exempt for whom?
a person from the normal obligation of citizenship.
His writing called “The Courteous Pegan” contrasts on what?
a symbolic level cultivated manners and natural Kindness.
He wrote “A key into the language of America”which was a book written to introduce who to whom?
the Narragansett Indian language to English speaking people.
