In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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... questions indirectly , through questions that must have occurred , or that did actually occur , to immigrants , and he builds proverbs from the Old Country into some of his own sentences , so that he often achieves the illusion of a ...
... questions indirectly , through questions that must have occurred , or that did actually occur , to immigrants , and he builds proverbs from the Old Country into some of his own sentences , so that he often achieves the illusion of a ...
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... questions , along with concern for technical experi- ments of the kind I have discussed in Miller , Handlin , and Erik- son , deserve the critic's attention even in the special kinds of history that we call Intellectual , Economic ...
... questions , along with concern for technical experi- ments of the kind I have discussed in Miller , Handlin , and Erik- son , deserve the critic's attention even in the special kinds of history that we call Intellectual , Economic ...
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... questions about two of the most enduring typical figures in our national past . The questions about Mather lead us to study the documentary evidence of the seventeenth century and the transformation of that evidence by modern believers ...
... questions about two of the most enduring typical figures in our national past . The questions about Mather lead us to study the documentary evidence of the seventeenth century and the transformation of that evidence by modern believers ...
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