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Page 43
... moral of the fable . And bound up with it is another motif which has already emerged sharply in Dickens . Dickens had evidently in the course of his astonishing rise , found himself up against the blank and chilling loftiness - what the ...
... moral of the fable . And bound up with it is another motif which has already emerged sharply in Dickens . Dickens had evidently in the course of his astonishing rise , found himself up against the blank and chilling loftiness - what the ...
Page 113
... moral . Despite Hem- ingway's preoccupation with physical contests , his heroes are almost always defeated physically , nerv- ously , practically : their victories are moral ones . He himself , when he trained himself stubbornly in his ...
... moral . Despite Hem- ingway's preoccupation with physical contests , his heroes are almost always defeated physically , nerv- ously , practically : their victories are moral ones . He himself , when he trained himself stubbornly in his ...
Page 189
... moral author- ity , of compelling argument and obstinate will . When we put ourselves back into the period , we realize that it was not at all inevitable to think of it as Lin- coln thought , and we come to see that Lincoln's con ...
... moral author- ity , of compelling argument and obstinate will . When we put ourselves back into the period , we realize that it was not at all inevitable to think of it as Lin- coln thought , and we come to see that Lincoln's con ...
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