• It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.

  Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 160

  Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic
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1. transforming
2. battlements
3. heartening
4. sustaining
5. everywhere
6. freedom

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It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere. by : Bernard Bailyn

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