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Page 42
... tells his son , was to obey the scriptural command ( Matthew 6 : 6 , 7 , 8 ) to pray in secret , without relying on vain repetitions or forms . Then he qualifies the statement : he concedes that at the age of seven or eight he did ...
... tells his son , was to obey the scriptural command ( Matthew 6 : 6 , 7 , 8 ) to pray in secret , without relying on vain repetitions or forms . Then he qualifies the statement : he concedes that at the age of seven or eight he did ...
Page 132
... tells Henry the truth , as he eventually does , the design will be ruined ; if he lets the friendship and the ... tell Henry of the relationship ) so that active , even melodramatic rejection will take the place of the father's blank ...
... tells Henry the truth , as he eventually does , the design will be ruined ; if he lets the friendship and the ... tell Henry of the relationship ) so that active , even melodramatic rejection will take the place of the father's blank ...
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... telling Henry . That moment , it seems to me , is the climax of the novel because it also represents the triumph of ... tells us that the conclusion about Bon's Negro ancestry was anything but historical inference . Even if we as- sume ...
... telling Henry . That moment , it seems to me , is the climax of the novel because it also represents the triumph of ... tells us that the conclusion about Bon's Negro ancestry was anything but historical inference . Even if we as- sume ...
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