Brownson, Orestes Augustus(1803–1876)
Orestes Augustus Brownson, a Transcendentalist philosopher and journalist, was born in Stockbridge, Vermont. He had little formal education. Until 1822 he ...
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Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876) was an American clergyman, transcendentalist, and social activist. He passed through the whole range of American religion, from nebulous Unitarianism to firmly di...
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Brownson and his work have engaged so many able minds, both in his own time and today, that his comparative neglect for over sixty years after his death is at least a minor conundrum in American intel...
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Orestes Augustus Brownson, a provincial Vermont man of hardscrabble origins, was welcomed into the tight, aristocratic circle of Boston Unitarian society by eminences such as William Ellery Channing a...
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New Englander Orestes Brownson was, above all else, a man of "-isms." In his long career as writer and editor, his religious beliefs changed frequently, taking him from Congregationalism and Presbyter...
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One of the most prolific American political essayists, lecturers, and religious philosophers of the nineteenth century, Orestes A. Brownson in his early writing and lecturing career, particularly in h...
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