The Grace of Adoption
Essay on 'The Grace of Adoption' outlining adoption as believers' highest relation to the Father and detailing the Son's atonement and the Spirit's work of regeneration and sanctification.
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The Grace of Adoption
James Latta, D.D.
Biographical sketch from Annals of the American Pulpit detailing Rev. James Latta’s life, education, pastoral labors, piety, and role in colonial American Presbyterian history.
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Dissent from Synod
Synod minutes recording dissent over forwarding a ministerial call without elders' concurrence; dissenters warn of dangerous precedent, legal disputes, and congregational discord.
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Retrospects and Prospects: Descriptive and Historical Essays
A collected volume of Sidney Lanier's essays exploring progress, nature, and culture. He contrasts sense vs. soul and examines modernity, art, and social change.
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Poems of Sidney Lanier
Posthumous 1884 edition of Sidney Lanier's poems, edited by his wife with a memorial. Biography recounts his music, college years, Confederate service, imprisonment, illness, and works.
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Bob, the Story of Our Mocking-Bird
Sidney Lanier's literary memoir recounts rescuing and raising 'Bob' the mockingbird, blending natural observation, poetic sketches, and affectionate biography of the bird.
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The English Novel and Its Principle of Development
Sidney Lanier traces the rise of the modern English novel, tying it to the growth of individual personality and concurrent advances in science and music. He examines the novel's forms and social influence.
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The Boy’s Percy: Being Old Ballads of War, Adventure and Love from Bishop Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Introduction to The Boy's Percy (1882), an edited anthology of Thomas Percy's ancient English ballads for boys. Discusses Percy's literary influence and ballad examples.
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The Science of English Verse
Lanier argues for a scientific study of English verse, tracing prosody from early English poets to the 19th century and linking poetry with music and the preacher's craft.
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The Boy’s King Arthur: Being Sir Thomas Malory’s History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Introduction to The Boy's King Arthur tracing Arthurian origins (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Layamon, Walter Map), treating Merlin, the Saint Grail, and the rise of medieval English literary tradition.
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The Boy’s Froissart: Being Sir John Froissart’s Chronicles of Adventure, Battle and Custom in England, France, Spain, Etc.
Sidney Lanier's introduction to Sir John Froissart's Chronicles (edited for boys) outlines Froissart's travels, method of gathering history, and the enduring ideals and faults of medieval knighthood.
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Acknowledgment
Selections from Lippincott's (Nov 1876): an essay on agriculture and horticulture, a reminiscence of visiting William Wordsworth, and Sidney Lanier's poem "Acknowledgment."
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To —, With a Rose
Excerpt from Lippincott's (Sept 1876) describing Machinery Hall at the Centennial, notes on game birds, farming and conservation, and a short poem by Sidney Lanier.
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Psalm of the West
An expansive 19th-century poem celebrating the American West—freedom, art, science, and exploration—mixing myth, nature, and historical allusion. It meditates on knowledge, dawn, and destiny.
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The Centennial Meditation of Columbia: A Cantata for the Inaugural Ceremonies at Philadelphia, May 10, 1876
Cantata poem (Sidney Lanier; music by Dudley Buck) celebrating America's founding, perseverance, and civic arts—with Mayflower/Jamestown imagery and a call to praise God's grace.
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Rose-Morals
Contents and excerpts from Lippincott's Magazine (May 1876), featuring essays on the Centennial Exhibition, fiction and poetry (Sidney Lanier's "Rose-Morals"), and a piece on Stonewall Jackson.
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To Charlotte Cushman
Lippincott's Magazine (March 1876) issue: essays, fiction, sketches, poetry and reviews covering expositions, India, biographies, and literary notices.
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