In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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... remains a fascinating problem for mod- ern biography not only because of his importance in colonial New England , his vast range of learning and the prodigious quantity of his writing , or his strange personality , but also because his ...
... remains a fascinating problem for mod- ern biography not only because of his importance in colonial New England , his vast range of learning and the prodigious quantity of his writing , or his strange personality , but also because his ...
Page 105
... remains the only one whose guilt is publicly known until the minister climbs the scaffold seven years later and confesses . Even then the puzzled people of Boston do not really know who remains guilty and who is truly penitent . A large ...
... remains the only one whose guilt is publicly known until the minister climbs the scaffold seven years later and confesses . Even then the puzzled people of Boston do not really know who remains guilty and who is truly penitent . A large ...
Page 111
... remains a mystery . Is the forest the domain of evil or the domain of natural love ? Does the settlement of the American wilderness bring order and godliness and progress , or injustice , and misery , and crime ? The riddle extends , as ...
... remains a mystery . Is the forest the domain of evil or the domain of natural love ? Does the settlement of the American wilderness bring order and godliness and progress , or injustice , and misery , and crime ? The riddle extends , as ...
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