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... Richard Baxter to produce his History of Apparitions and important thematic inci- dents in Moll Flanders . To see Defoe in relation to the writing of his time is to understand his artistic theories . He tells us , for example , that the ...
... Richard Baxter to produce his History of Apparitions and important thematic inci- dents in Moll Flanders . To see Defoe in relation to the writing of his time is to understand his artistic theories . He tells us , for example , that the ...
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... Richard Baxter , Meric Casaubon , and Fontenelle and bore such titles as Nathaniel Crouch's The Kingdom of Darkness : Or The History of Daemons , Specters , Witches , Appa- ritions , Possessions , Disturbances , and other wonderful and ...
... Richard Baxter , Meric Casaubon , and Fontenelle and bore such titles as Nathaniel Crouch's The Kingdom of Darkness : Or The History of Daemons , Specters , Witches , Appa- ritions , Possessions , Disturbances , and other wonderful and ...
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... Richard Baxter on how despair comes from the idea that " the Day of Grace is past " and leads to suicidal thoughts in The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits . In one anecdote , a man hears a voice saying " Now cut thy Throat .... Do it ...
... Richard Baxter on how despair comes from the idea that " the Day of Grace is past " and leads to suicidal thoughts in The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits . In one anecdote , a man hears a voice saying " Now cut thy Throat .... Do it ...
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