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... actually weakened by inadequacies ( sluggishness , for example ) like those Motley considered fatal to Spanish gov- ernment and Spanish commerce . It is not what Allan Nevins would call Motley's style that made this judgment of the ...
... actually weakened by inadequacies ( sluggishness , for example ) like those Motley considered fatal to Spanish gov- ernment and Spanish commerce . It is not what Allan Nevins would call Motley's style that made this judgment of the ...
Page 32
... actually to be the most impor- tant events ? How does he move from individual evidence to general judg- ment , and what relationship does he establish between the typical character or incident and the larger reality that it represents ...
... actually to be the most impor- tant events ? How does he move from individual evidence to general judg- ment , and what relationship does he establish between the typical character or incident and the larger reality that it represents ...
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... Actually , the Harvard inci- dents have been the crucial ones in the portrayal of Mather's boyhood , and I suspect that they form the basis for the ironic judgments of the earlier " persecution " that we have been con- sidering . Yet ...
... Actually , the Harvard inci- dents have been the crucial ones in the portrayal of Mather's boyhood , and I suspect that they form the basis for the ironic judgments of the earlier " persecution " that we have been con- sidering . Yet ...
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