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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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grace

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the quality needed to go to heaven

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predestination

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one’s fate is already decided for them by God

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elect

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those who were aved

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covenant

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a promise between man and God

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Calvinists

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in 17th century America they were called Puritans

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Where did the Puritans land

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Plymouth around 1620

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Why did puritans migrate?

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poverty, overcrowded island, debt/jail terms, religious “freedom”

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Locke

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the mind is a blank slate at birth; no innate ideas of good or evil; tabula rasa

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Ben Franklin

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represents spirit of the Enlightenment; depended on firsthand experience; secularized Puritan: spiritual questions of past now became questions of ethics, self-discipline, and public service

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Great Awakening

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Backlash to a scientific world that didn’t put God at the center; Occurs about one hundred years after Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity”

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Poor Richard’s Almanac

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  1. Fish and visitors stink in three days.
  2. Hunger never saw bad bread.
  3. Little rogues easily become great ones.
  4. Who has deceived thee as often as thyself?
  5. Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
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What is an American

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De Crevecoeur

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A Model of Christian Charity

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John Winthrop

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Of Plymouth Plantation

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William Bradford

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The Prologue, Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, To My Dear and Loving Husband

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Anne Bradstreet

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On the Relgion of Nature

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Philip Freneau

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The Way to Wealth

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Ben Franklin

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Age of Reason

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Thomas Paine

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Thanatopsis

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Bryant

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Nature and Self-Reliance

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Emerson

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Walden, Civil Disobedience, Resistance to Civil Government

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Thoreau

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Ethan Brand, Young Goodman Brown and Rappaccini’s Daughter

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Hawthrone

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Rip Van Winkle and Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Irving

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Moby Dick

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Melville

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The fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, Annabel-Lee, Sonnet–To Science

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Poe

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Individualism

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the individual is beholden to no institute outside the self

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Intuition

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basic truths come by way of intuition rather than the senses or reason

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Nature

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is symbolic—everything in nature is significant and symbolic of spirit

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Oversoul

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humanity and nature share a universal soul

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Everyone

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can experience God firsthand

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Transcendentalism Principle

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Structure of the Universe literally duplicated the structure of the individual self, and that all knowledge therefore begins with self-knowledge

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