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Page 132
... acceptance of them and his unheated accounts of them . The religious fanaticism of Calvinism and its resultant distortion and intensification of character he accepted in the same way . Similarly with the supernatural at the folklore ...
... acceptance of them and his unheated accounts of them . The religious fanaticism of Calvinism and its resultant distortion and intensification of character he accepted in the same way . Similarly with the supernatural at the folklore ...
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... accepted the idea of progress without much question . The age represented the triumph of protestantism , and perhaps its great achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea of respectability . It was a great achievement , no ...
... accepted the idea of progress without much question . The age represented the triumph of protestantism , and perhaps its great achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea of respectability . It was a great achievement , no ...
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... accepted sense no plot , no comedy , no tragedy , no love interest or catastrophe ; there is only Miriam Henderson , living from day to day , expe- riencing , feeling , reacting to the stimuli of the outside world of people and things ...
... accepted sense no plot , no comedy , no tragedy , no love interest or catastrophe ; there is only Miriam Henderson , living from day to day , expe- riencing , feeling , reacting to the stimuli of the outside world of people and things ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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