In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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... experience of individual men who really lived in seventeenth- century Massachusetts . In the second volume , then , Mr. Miller writes a more nearly traditional kind of narrative , in which individual men do triumph and suffer as he ...
... experience of individual men who really lived in seventeenth- century Massachusetts . In the second volume , then , Mr. Miller writes a more nearly traditional kind of narrative , in which individual men do triumph and suffer as he ...
Page 70
... experience , as when he tells us that he soon gave up converting people to belief in Deism because the result seemed often to be that they thus became less virtuous than before . Deism , he said , might be true , but it did not seem to ...
... experience , as when he tells us that he soon gave up converting people to belief in Deism because the result seemed often to be that they thus became less virtuous than before . Deism , he said , might be true , but it did not seem to ...
Page 87
... experience - both its uncertainty and its unforgettable impression - that makes the doubt permanent . The question , then , is not whether Faith and the others were really there , in their own persons , at the witch meeting . When ...
... experience - both its uncertainty and its unforgettable impression - that makes the doubt permanent . The question , then , is not whether Faith and the others were really there , in their own persons , at the witch meeting . When ...
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