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... kind . ' George Eliot believed , almost like a fanatic of determinism , in ' the orderly sequence by which the seed brings forth a crop after its kind ' . Human beings were made for good or ill by their actions and in the last analysis ...
... kind . ' George Eliot believed , almost like a fanatic of determinism , in ' the orderly sequence by which the seed brings forth a crop after its kind ' . Human beings were made for good or ill by their actions and in the last analysis ...
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... kind that has been parodied and burlesqued so many times in fiction before and after George Eliot that it is now extremely hard to imagine them spoken with passion and sincerity . George Eliot tried too hard with Dinah , and she tried ...
... kind that has been parodied and burlesqued so many times in fiction before and after George Eliot that it is now extremely hard to imagine them spoken with passion and sincerity . George Eliot tried too hard with Dinah , and she tried ...
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... kind of power and a new kind of man and the breeding places of a new kind of misery . For Bennett , the Potteries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene , as he realized himself ...
... kind of power and a new kind of man and the breeding places of a new kind of misery . For Bennett , the Potteries were neither new nor frightening ; they were the perfectly familiar : home . Bennett's scene , as he realized himself ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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