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" And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. "
Herman Melville - Page 92
by John Freeman - 1926 - 200 pages
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White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war

Herman Melville - Flagellation - 1850 - 336 pages
...by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged. Escaped from the house of bondage, Israel of old did...the sun. And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. Seventy years ago we...
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White-Jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war

Herman Melville - 1892 - 788 pages
...by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before ; the world is not yet middle-aged. Escaped from the house of bondage, Israel of old did...the peculiar, chosen people — the Israel of our tune ; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. Seventy years ago we escaped from thrall ; and,...
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White-Jacket; Or, The World in a Man-of-war

Herman Melville - 1922 - 402 pages
...ago we escaped from thrall ; and, besides our first birthright — embracing one continent of earth Escaped from the house of bondage, Israel of old did...sun. And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people — God has given to us, for a future inheritance, the broad domains of the political pagans, that...
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White-Jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war

Herman Melville - Flagellation - 1892 - 474 pages
...the rear, and impeding their march with lumbering baggage-wagons of old precedents. This is the Past. Escaped from the house of bondage, Israel of old did...express dispensation; to her were given new things under 1 the sun. And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people | —the Israel of our time; we bear the...
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White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war

Herman Melville - Fiction - 1970 - 520 pages
...by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged. ways of the Egyptians. To her was given an express...the sun. And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. Seventy years ago we...
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Mythopoesis: Mythic Patterns in the Literary Classics

Harry Slochower - Myth in literature - 1970 - 376 pages
...fraternity and freedom which constitute America's unique original values. He thought that Americans were "the peculiar, chosen people— the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world."35 NOTES 1. The philosophy of John Dewey is the systematized expression of this temper. See...
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Beyond Ethnicity : Consent and Descent in American Culture: Consent and ...

Werner Sollors Professor of American Literature and Afro-American Studies Harvard University - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 314 pages
...Gailes of the Holy Ghost Who sweetly briezes all along this Coast. — Edward Taylor, Meditation II, 78 And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people —...time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. —Herman Melville, White- Jacket [Cf. 1 Peter 2:9] In a Jewish Theological Seminary address of 1903,...
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The American Experience in Vietnam: A Reader

Grace Sevy - History - 1991 - 340 pages
...condition of being an American is a single sentence written by Herman Melville in his novel White Jacket: "And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people...our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world."1 This was not the last time this idea was expressed by Americans. It was at the center of thought...
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Selves at Risk: Patterns of Quest in Contemporary American Letters

Ihab Hassan - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 256 pages
...literature. I. Title. II. Series. PS374.Q47H37 1990 89-36082 818'.50809'353-dc20 CIP ISBN 0-299-12370-7 s We Americans are the peculiar chosen people — the Israel of our time. ... We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things,...
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Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Walter E. Bezanson - Poetry - 1991 - 940 pages
...White-Jacket (chap. 36) he picked up again the analogy that the New England settlers had cherished: "And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people...time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world" (p. 151). This sense of a divine destiny for America runs in and out of his writing; among the complexities...
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