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... passion or cruelty , of victory or defeat , of civilization or barbarism . The Israelites three or four thousand years ago , in their passionate preoccupation with sin , invented such a symbolic scene in which the priest shall lay both ...
... passion or cruelty , of victory or defeat , of civilization or barbarism . The Israelites three or four thousand years ago , in their passionate preoccupation with sin , invented such a symbolic scene in which the priest shall lay both ...
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... passionate , profound , intense and domi- nating . He had a kind of purity which I have never known equalled except ... passion and softened the intensity . It had chiselled away some of the beauty of his face . He told me that a little ...
... passionate , profound , intense and domi- nating . He had a kind of purity which I have never known equalled except ... passion and softened the intensity . It had chiselled away some of the beauty of his face . He told me that a little ...
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... passion for literature , learning , books , and reading . He had been unable to read and had hardly seen a book for months , and the sight of the mountain of my books had the same effect upon him as the sudden sight of a spring of pure ...
... passion for literature , learning , books , and reading . He had been unable to read and had hardly seen a book for months , and the sight of the mountain of my books had the same effect upon him as the sudden sight of a spring of pure ...
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