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Page 147
... whole country is unjustly over- run and conquered by a foreign army , and subjected to military law , I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize . What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the ...
... whole country is unjustly over- run and conquered by a foreign army , and subjected to military law , I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize . What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the ...
Page 149
... whole vote , not a strip of paper mere- ly , but your whole influence . A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority ; it is not even a mi- nority then ; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight . If the ...
... whole vote , not a strip of paper mere- ly , but your whole influence . A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority ; it is not even a mi- nority then ; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight . If the ...
Page 125
... whole is modified by an arresting specific detail , designed to catch or convince our imagination : " where the moss has grown . " The other sections develop in like fashion , but in place of the four similitudes of the first section ...
... whole is modified by an arresting specific detail , designed to catch or convince our imagination : " where the moss has grown . " The other sections develop in like fashion , but in place of the four similitudes of the first section ...
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BERNARD MALAMUD | 20 |
THE NOBEL PRIZE 27 | 64 |
RALPH ELLISON | 75 |
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