American Writers: A Collection of Literary BiographiesLeonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini Scribner, 1974 - American literature The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated. |
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... thought not only counters but uses fate , by design , by dream , by will , by moral purpose . " Fate , then , is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought ; -for causes which are unpenetrated . " The fifth is to see that ...
... thought not only counters but uses fate , by design , by dream , by will , by moral purpose . " Fate , then , is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought ; -for causes which are unpenetrated . " The fifth is to see that ...
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... thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the ...
... thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the ...
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... thought's objects are numbers , say , then at some point in the elucidation of the thought a mathematician will have to be called in , not just a psycholo- gist . Although the object belongs to thought and thought is psychical , still ...
... thought's objects are numbers , say , then at some point in the elucidation of the thought a mathematician will have to be called in , not just a psycholo- gist . Although the object belongs to thought and thought is psychical , still ...
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