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... comes out against him , to the dishonor of religion , his own unspeakable shame and anguish , and the distress unutter- able of his wife and children . " And : " Another distin- guished high church episcopalian clergyman in Phila ...
... comes out against him , to the dishonor of religion , his own unspeakable shame and anguish , and the distress unutter- able of his wife and children . " And : " Another distin- guished high church episcopalian clergyman in Phila ...
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... come , as one explores these novels , to seem not merely disappointing but astonishing . The explanation of this ... comes to depend more and more on conventional Victorian devices , which she handles in a more and more perfunctory ...
... come , as one explores these novels , to seem not merely disappointing but astonishing . The explanation of this ... comes to depend more and more on conventional Victorian devices , which she handles in a more and more perfunctory ...
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... come from exploiting dramati- cally some abnormal phenomenon of consciousness . There is , otherwise , merely the Grand Guignol trick re- peated again and again . The executioner Death comes to us from outside our human world and ...
... come from exploiting dramati- cally some abnormal phenomenon of consciousness . There is , otherwise , merely the Grand Guignol trick re- peated again and again . The executioner Death comes to us from outside our human world and ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Limited preview - 1994 |
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Limited preview - 2019 |
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