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... motives , their perceptions , and their actions affected their treatment of each other . Regardless of how we qualify it , though , the basis for Mr. Hofstadter's paragraphs is a flexible narrative , with typical char- acters acting ...
... motives , their perceptions , and their actions affected their treatment of each other . Regardless of how we qualify it , though , the basis for Mr. Hofstadter's paragraphs is a flexible narrative , with typical char- acters acting ...
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... motives can be served by a government's attempt to fight the Devil , and the disastrous aid that a self - serving confes- sion gives injustice by encouraging the court's belief in the genuineness of the conspiracy - all this makes the ...
... motives can be served by a government's attempt to fight the Devil , and the disastrous aid that a self - serving confes- sion gives injustice by encouraging the court's belief in the genuineness of the conspiracy - all this makes the ...
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... motive for the Unpardonable Sin ; in Holgrave the Unpardonable Sin goes in search of a motive , and the refusal by which Hawthorne sought to ennoble his hero reveals instead the author's awkward intrusion . yes . A similar embarrassment ...
... motive for the Unpardonable Sin ; in Holgrave the Unpardonable Sin goes in search of a motive , and the refusal by which Hawthorne sought to ennoble his hero reveals instead the author's awkward intrusion . yes . A similar embarrassment ...
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