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Page 43
... becomes impossible , the Biblical claim to absolute authority is jeopardized ; the method of interpretation is scorned and rejected , the Biblical stories become ancient legends , and the doctrine they had contained , now dissevered ...
... becomes impossible , the Biblical claim to absolute authority is jeopardized ; the method of interpretation is scorned and rejected , the Biblical stories become ancient legends , and the doctrine they had contained , now dissevered ...
Page 532
... becomes hardly more than the voice of the omniscient author . Ahab , perhaps origin- ally conceived as one more portrait in Melville's gallery of tyrannical and irritable captains , becomes a great , doomed hero . The language itself ...
... becomes hardly more than the voice of the omniscient author . Ahab , perhaps origin- ally conceived as one more portrait in Melville's gallery of tyrannical and irritable captains , becomes a great , doomed hero . The language itself ...
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... becomes something else , its value designation is different — as when a beautiful bowl becomes valuable not for its beauty but for its capacity to hold soup . So also the moral , when it is converted to utility , becomes something else ...
... becomes something else , its value designation is different — as when a beautiful bowl becomes valuable not for its beauty but for its capacity to hold soup . So also the moral , when it is converted to utility , becomes something else ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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