American Literature / Unit 4 AML 0306 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"A City Upon a Hill"
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The idea
The sermon's most quoted sentence tells the colonists they shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people upon them. The warning follows at once: deal falsely with God and they will be made a story and a byword. The image is a burden.
In practice
Watched, and answerable for being watched.
Where people slip
The famous phrase arrives inside a threat.
Your place on the trail
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