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... Pierre , and , I suspected , became so in The Confidence - Man . Moreover , the pervasive and generally recognized ... Pierre " the ambiguities " he had pressed such an emergency upon the guileless Pierre , had explored it in such short ...
... Pierre , and , I suspected , became so in The Confidence - Man . Moreover , the pervasive and generally recognized ... Pierre " the ambiguities " he had pressed such an emergency upon the guileless Pierre , had explored it in such short ...
Page 115
... Pierre , " the censure of which was anything but imaginary . " ' 13 But the reference may well go back to Mardi ... Pierre and his subsequent turn to maga- zine writing ; but Melville may have been justifying his own motives in writing ...
... Pierre , " the censure of which was anything but imaginary . " ' 13 But the reference may well go back to Mardi ... Pierre and his subsequent turn to maga- zine writing ; but Melville may have been justifying his own motives in writing ...
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... Pierre he had paraphrased the Pauline passage and pro- vided its converse formulation : " And thus , though the earthly wisdom of man be heavenly folly to God ; so also , conversely , is the heavenly wisdom of God an earthly folly to ...
... Pierre he had paraphrased the Pauline passage and pro- vided its converse formulation : " And thus , though the earthly wisdom of man be heavenly folly to God ; so also , conversely , is the heavenly wisdom of God an earthly folly to ...
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