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   Jun 28, 2010 · First, we see what “city on a hill” really means: it doesn’t mean perfect, it means visible. They will be under a microscope, unable to hide their failures from all the eyes trained on them. No one wants to live in a city on a hill, because all of your faults and failings are in plain view.

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2. www.thoughtco.com › city-upon-a-hill-john-winthropCity Upon a Hill: Colonial American Literature - ThoughtCo

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   John Winthrop used the phrase "City upon a Hill" to describe the new settlement, with "the eies of all people" upon them. And with those words, he laid a foundation for a new world. These new settlers certainly represented a new destiny for this land.

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   Jun 5, 2012 · Summary. For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.

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4. thehistoricpresent.com › the-city-upon-a-hill-byThe City Upon a Hill by John Winthrop - The Historic Present

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   First, we see what “city on a hill” really means: it doesn’t mean perfect, it means visible. They will be under a microscope, unable to hide their failures from all the eyes trained on them. No one wants to live in a city on a hill, because all of your faults and failings are in plain view.

5. www.rai.ox.ac.uk › article › city-hill-exceptionalA City on a Hill: The exceptional history of a powerful metaphor

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   It is one of America’s most powerful founding myths – the pilgrims on an errand into the wilderness to create a new model society– “we shall be like a city upon the hill,” Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor Winthrop was supposed to have said in 1630, “the eyes of the world upon us”.

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   Oct 22, 2024 · In the summer of 1630, John Winthrop, a Puritan leader from England, stood on the Albella Fleet slowly sailing into Massachusetts Bay, overlooking an unfamiliar continent from a distance. At some point, he delivered his famous sermon, A Model of Christian Charity, also known as A City upon a Hill. In the sermon, Winthrop eagerly anticipates the ...

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   Who wrote City upon a hill?

   • The “City upon a Hill” section of the essay called “A Model of Christian Charity” was written in 1630 by the Puritan leader John Winthrop while the first group of Puritan emigrants was still onboard their ship, the Arbella, waiting to disembark and create their first settlement in what would become New England.

   “The City upon a Hill” by John Winthrop: what is it about?

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   Did Winthrop say 'we shall be like a city on the hill?

   • The episode was not found or is unavailable. It is one of America’s most powerful founding myths – the pilgrims on an errand into the wilderness to create a new model society– “we shall be like a city upon the hill,” Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor Winthrop was supposed to have said in 1630, “the eyes of the world upon us”.

   A City on a Hill: The exceptional history of a powerful metaphor

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   What does “City on a hill” mean?

   • By now, the “City upon a Hill” excerpt has come to represent irritating Puritan pridefulness—they thought they were perfect, a city on a hill that everyone else would admire and want to emulate. In reality, the excerpt is far from a back-patting exercise. It is a gauntlet laid down to the already weary would-be settlers. Let’s go through it:

   “The City upon a Hill” by John Winthrop: what is it about?

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8. www.americanyawp.com › reader › colliding-culturesJohn Winthrop Dreams of a City on a Hill, 1630 | The American ...

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   The sermon is famous largely for its use of the phrase “a city on a hill,” used to describe the expectation that the Massachusetts Bay colony would shine like an example to the world. But Winthrop’s sermon also reveals how he expected Massachusetts to differ from the rest of the world.