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...speaking trip to the U.S. last week, Canada's Finance Minister Douglas Abbott had a confession to make. "Our public men [have failed] to tell our story in your country," he told a convention of bankers at Whitefield, N.H. "Today [I intend] to cast aside any restraining influence of that modesty which I hope is a Canadian virtue, and talk to you . . . unblushingly . . . of the virtual transformation which has been wrought in the Canadian economy within the past ten years...
...oratory, pulpit eloquence and pamphleteering." It was rich in symbolism, which "tends to dominate folk expression." It was rich also in a sense of evil. The Salem witch burnings were "cumulative folk-obsessions." Jonathan Edwards "induced tortuous introspections." Charles Wesley and the "dark fire" of his fellow Methodist, George Whitefield, kept the nation incandescent with revivalism for a generation. Calvinism, a scientific bent and poverty, gave early U.S. art a flair for abstraction...
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...Breakable Crust Plymouth, N.H. Cloudy Poor 8 granular surface Quebec (Lac Reauport) Fair Good 46 Powder Stowe (Mt. Mausfield) Vt. Fair Good 29 to 62 Powder Sunapee Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 17 Hardcrust Tamworth Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 10 Frozen snow Waterville Valley, N.H. Cloudy Fair 16 Hard base Whitefield, N.H. Fair Good 12 Blown pow, over crust Wolfebore, N.H. Cloudy Fair 7 Frozen granular Woodstock, Vt. Cloudy Fair 12 Breakable crust
...celebrate while there was still time, Pennsylvania had anticipated its actual 200th anniversary by 15 years. It claims birth in 1740, when a charity school and "house of public worship" opened at Fourth and Arch Streets to provide a pulpit for George Whitefield, famed Anglican revivalist preacher. But not until 1749 did Ben Franklin get Philadelphians to establish an academy in the Whitefield Chapel, not until 1755 did it actually become a college...