Religious and Moral Ideas in the Novels of George EliotUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963 - 398 pages |
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... truth and fiction , and while I admire and cherish much of what I believe to have been the moral teaching of Jesus himself , I consider the system of doctrines built upon the facts of his life and drawn as to its materials from Jewish ...
... truth and fiction , and while I admire and cherish much of what I believe to have been the moral teaching of Jesus himself , I consider the system of doctrines built upon the facts of his life and drawn as to its materials from Jewish ...
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... truth ; it tries to separate matters of fact from matters of feeling . Such an interpretation does not in any way ... truths , whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts . The certainty of this alone can give ...
... truth ; it tries to separate matters of fact from matters of feeling . Such an interpretation does not in any way ... truths , whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts . The certainty of this alone can give ...
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... truth and life which for eighteen centuries has been the aliment of humanity , seems irretrievably dissipated ; the most sublime levelled with the dust , God divested of his grace , man of his dignity and the tie between heaven and ...
... truth and life which for eighteen centuries has been the aliment of humanity , seems irretrievably dissipated ; the most sublime levelled with the dust , God divested of his grace , man of his dignity and the tie between heaven and ...
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