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Page 67
... reason , the temporal relationship between the composition of The Confidence - Man and Melville's attention to the twelfth and thirteenth chapters of I Corinthians becomes an interesting matter for specula- tion . Melville's familiarity ...
... reason , the temporal relationship between the composition of The Confidence - Man and Melville's attention to the twelfth and thirteenth chapters of I Corinthians becomes an interesting matter for specula- tion . Melville's familiarity ...
Page 82
... Reason , to her seeming , and with Truth . ( PL 9.736-38 ) The confidence man is also apt to lace his arguments with words that seem " impregn'd with Reason . " As the herb doctor , he follows a dubious line of reasoning in speaking ...
... Reason , to her seeming , and with Truth . ( PL 9.736-38 ) The confidence man is also apt to lace his arguments with words that seem " impregn'd with Reason . " As the herb doctor , he follows a dubious line of reasoning in speaking ...
Page 113
... reason is considered mad . All of the central characters in Melville's five stories are " mad " in a similarly ambiguous way . The first interpolated story , " The Story of the Unfor- tunate Man , " had followed a rather devious course ...
... reason is considered mad . All of the central characters in Melville's five stories are " mad " in a similarly ambiguous way . The first interpolated story , " The Story of the Unfor- tunate Man , " had followed a rather devious course ...
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