Author: Lawrence WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Final Sale of the Relics of General Washington
Author: Lawrence WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Washington Collection in the Boston Athenæum
Author: Boston AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Estate of George Washington, Deceased
Author: Eugene Ernst PrussingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Catalogue
Author: C.F. Libbie & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
The Art Collector
Author: Alfred TrumblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Book Arts
Author: Newberry LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
"In the Hands of a Good Providence"
Author: Mary V. ThompsonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813930324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Attempts by evangelical Christians to claim Washington and other founders as their own, and scholars' ongoing attempts to contradict these claims, are nothing new. Particularly after Washington was no longer around to refute them, legends of his Baptist baptism or secret conversion to Catholicism began to proliferate. Mount Vernon researcher Mary Thompson endeavors to get beyond the current preoccupation with whether Washington and other founders were or were not evangelical Christians to ask what place religion had in their lives. Thompson follows Washington and his family over several generations, situating her inquiry in the context of new work on the place of religion in colonial and postrevolutionary Virginia and the Chesapeake. Thompson considers Washington's active participation as a vestryman and church warden as well as a generous donor to his parish prior to the Revolution, and how his attendance declined after the war. He would attend special ceremonies, and stood as godparent to the children of family and friends, but he stopped taking communion and resigned his church office. Something had changed, but was it Washington, the church, or both? Thompson concludes that he was a devout Anglican, of a Latitudinarian bent, rather than either an evangelical Christian or a Deist. The meaning of this description, Thompson allows, when applied to eighteenth-century Virginia gentlemen, is far from self-evident, leaving ample room for speculation.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Catalogue of the Large and Valuable Library of Mr. John E. Burton of Lake Geneva, Wis
Author: John Edgar BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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