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... course , the failure of the Independent enterprise which led the English bourgeoisie to the political strategy of gradualism and the world vision of empiricism . Nonetheless , the decades of the revolutionary crisis and its immediate ...
... course , the failure of the Independent enterprise which led the English bourgeoisie to the political strategy of gradualism and the world vision of empiricism . Nonetheless , the decades of the revolutionary crisis and its immediate ...
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... course , generally much less admired than Paradise Lost . And the reason for this is not too difficult to discern : the quietism of its subject matter demands a literary form which is almost everything that Paradise Lost is not ...
... course , generally much less admired than Paradise Lost . And the reason for this is not too difficult to discern : the quietism of its subject matter demands a literary form which is almost everything that Paradise Lost is not ...
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... course , in order to reject it , of atheism . 160 In the course of the brief interlude between Samson's exchanges with his father and with Dálila , the Chorus comes to express a sense of the apparent injustice of God's ways which had ...
... course , in order to reject it , of atheism . 160 In the course of the brief interlude between Samson's exchanges with his father and with Dálila , the Chorus comes to express a sense of the apparent injustice of God's ways which had ...
Contents
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Reason Triumphant | 94 |
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