The Enlightenment Writers
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The central ideas of were similar to, yet
very different from, those of the writers of earlier periods. Four major
Enlightenment writers were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas
Jefferson, and Patrick Henry.
Their main purpose was to write to educate and edify and not so
much as to write for ....
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.... ability to read so that they
might learn more and rise higher, socially and politically which would lead
to self betterment.
Enlightenment writers and pre-Enlightenment writers were similar in
the way that they tried to convey reason and learning. They differed of
the premise of the techniques of writing. The pre-Enlightenment writers
were mostly made up of the educated class of clergy and the upper class,
who would afford to go to school. The clergy wrote mainly for the purposes
of the chu ....
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