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... explain the facts . Yet that is the concept historians have used to explain and judge Cotton Mather's conduct during the following summer . Ralph and Louise Boas , somewhat more sym- pathetically than others , invent a group of wordly ...
... explain the facts . Yet that is the concept historians have used to explain and judge Cotton Mather's conduct during the following summer . Ralph and Louise Boas , somewhat more sym- pathetically than others , invent a group of wordly ...
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... explain why , when he is most highly suspect , he is helped by two of the most respectable men in the town ; we would have to look sharply for evidence of gentility in the planters who come out in their carriages to watch the coarse ...
... explain why , when he is most highly suspect , he is helped by two of the most respectable men in the town ; we would have to look sharply for evidence of gentility in the planters who come out in their carriages to watch the coarse ...
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... explanation of Henry Sutpen's objection to the proposed marriage of Judith Sutpen and Charles Bon . At the time Mr. Compson offers this explanation , he does not know that Charles and Henry were half - brothers , or that Charles was ...
... explanation of Henry Sutpen's objection to the proposed marriage of Judith Sutpen and Charles Bon . At the time Mr. Compson offers this explanation , he does not know that Charles and Henry were half - brothers , or that Charles was ...
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