Early American

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We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are on us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

John Winthrop

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Topic

America as example America

Author

John Winthrop

Source

A Model of Christian Charity

Medium

Sermon

Language

English

Time

1630 1630s 17th century

Era

Colonial America

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Citation

Winthrop, John. "A Model of Christian Charity." 8 Apr. 1630, on board Arbella. Sermon.

Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation

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Topic

Early America

Author

William Bradford

Source

Of Plymouth Plantation

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1620 1620s 17th century

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Original Citation

Bradford, William. Journal entry. 6 Sept. 1620.

Current Citation

Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. Random House, 1981, ch. 9.

We must bear one another's burdens, we must not look only on our own things but also on the things of our brethren.

John Winthrop

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Topic

Social solidarity Helping others

Author

John Winthrop

Source

A Model of Christian Charity

Medium

Sermon

Language

English

Time

1630 1630s 17th century

Era

Colonial America

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Citation

Winthrop, John. "A Model of Christian Charity." 8 Apr. 1630, on board Arbella. Sermon.

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws.

William Penn

Frame of Government

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Topic

Political theory

Author

William Penn

Source

Frame of Government

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1682 1680s 17th century

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Citation

Penn, William. Frame of Government. 1682, preface.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation

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Early America Inscrutability of God

Author

William Bradford

Source

Of Plymouth Plantation

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1621 1620s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bradford, William. Letter to Thomas Weston. 1621.

Current Citation

Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. Random House, 1981, ch. 12.

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation

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Topic

Small beginnings

Author

William Bradford

Source

Of Plymouth Plantation

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1630 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bradford, William. Journal entry. 2 Aug. 1630.

Current Citation

Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. Random House, 1981, ch. 21.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

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Topic

Truth

Author

William Penn

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1682 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Penn, William. Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims. London: Thomas Northcott, 1693, pt. 1, no. 142.