Religious and Moral Ideas in the Novels of George EliotUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963 - 398 pages |
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... tried to assimilate in her consciousness some of the most intimate convictions of the age . Basil Willey says : " Probably no English writer of the time , and certainly no novelist , more fully epitomizes the century ; her development ...
... tried to assimilate in her consciousness some of the most intimate convictions of the age . Basil Willey says : " Probably no English writer of the time , and certainly no novelist , more fully epitomizes the century ; her development ...
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... tried to date each book , weighed the evidence for and against each historical narrative with due consideration to the character and intention of each author and the mental equipment of the people to whom the work was addressed . In his ...
... tried to date each book , weighed the evidence for and against each historical narrative with due consideration to the character and intention of each author and the mental equipment of the people to whom the work was addressed . In his ...
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... tried to find comfort in religion , had gone to hear celebrated preachers , and had read religious books but all these , as in the case of Janet , had left him " just the same as before . " only a friend who had gone through a similar ...
... tried to find comfort in religion , had gone to hear celebrated preachers , and had read religious books but all these , as in the case of Janet , had left him " just the same as before . " only a friend who had gone through a similar ...
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