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* The Author to Her Book
            à Anne Bradstreet
            à female subjectivity （女性的觀點)
            à autobiography
            à “Who after birth didst by my side remain” (2)
                        - did(st) = 古詩, 德語的殘留
            à “I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet” (15)
                        - metrical feet, 指的是自己的詩很糟糕但是我還是寫出這首詩所以很驕傲
            à “And for they mother, she alas is poor, /
                  Which caused her thus to send thee out of door.” (23-24)
                        - mother = the author, even if she’s poor now, but she still likes to write and share


* From Preparatory Meditations (Prologue)
            à Edward Taylor (most of his work are “religious”)
            à a lot of capitalized words are used throughout the poem 神化
            à “Lord, Can a Crumb of Dust the Earth outweigh” (1)
                        - Crumb of Dust (1, 13, 25): clay, ash
            à “Eternal Glory” (6)
                        - invocation 希望能把神叫進來幫忙祈禱
            à “Angel’s Ouill” (7)
                        - 鵝毛筆
            à “Unless Thou mak’st the Pen, and Scrivener.” (12)
                        - 有神力的筆 (power from the God) 就能使我寫出如此棒的詩
            à “To Prove Thou art, and that Thou art the best”
                        -  帶著我這有神力的筆來證明你 (God) 的存在
              

* Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God
            à Jonathan Edwards
            à “that natural men are held in the hand of god, over the pit of hell; they have deserved
                          the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it”
                        - Puritanism: 1. Original sin; 2. Predestine; 3. Inhabitant guilt
            à wrath: repetition of words 憤怒


* Benjamin Franklin
            à revolutionary period
            à he was born with poverty, but he wanted to be successful, and would love to help
                 people to be successful
            à “Franklin had an uncanny instinct for success and knew that the new commercialism
                 demanded that anyone in business assume a public persona that best served his and his
                 clients’ interests, even if it masked one’s true self.”
            à “Franklin’s remaining years, however, were spent not in a laboratory, but at diplomatic
                  tables in London, Paris, and Philadelphia, where his gift for irony served him well.
                        - He was a born diplomat – detached, adaptable, witty, urbane, charming, and
                           clever. 
                        – and of the slightly more than forty years left to him after his retirement,
                          more than half were spent abroad.
                        - he’s a well-rounded, renaissance man
                        -  外交官’s characteristics: detached, adaptable, witty, urbane, charming, clever
                        - went aboard for more than 40 years: minister to France; treaty of Paris;
                           constitutional convention
            à “he was one of the most beloved Americans. Twenty thousand people attended his
                 funeral.”
            à Almanack; Poor Richard, 1739
        

* The Autobiography
            à Benjamin franklin, England
            à Repetition words: 1. Felicity; 2. Natural; 3. Vanity
            à “I shall indulge the Inclination so natural in old Men, to be taking to themselves and
                 their own past Actions, and I shall indulge it, without being troublesome to others who
                 thro’ respect to Age might think themselves oblig’d to give me a Hearing, since this
                 may be read or not as any one pleases.”
            à 自律,  教要如何成功, 信、望、愛
            à Names of Virtues (how to acquire the Habitude 習慣的養成): 
                        1. Temperance (過予不及)
                        2. Silence
                        3. Order
                        4. Resolution
                        5. Frugality
                        6. Industry
                        7. Sincerity
                        8. Justice
                        9. Moderation
                        10. Cleanliness
                        11. Tranquility
                        12. Chastity
                        13. Humility
            à two charts or tables to accomplish his goals: 1. Weekly chart; 2. Daily chart

 

“his beliefs was viewed as an attack on Christianity and, by extension, on conventional
                 society


* Thomas Jefferson
           

* The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
           

The Declaration of the United States of America
                        - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
                        - secure your own right, it is your duty to abolish


* The Federalist
           

“No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly
                 bias his judgment and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.
                        - checks and balances
                        - make laws, interpret the law, enforce the law (executive, CEO)