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... story of Jesus Christ being the Son of God . He was born at a time when the heathen mythology had still some fashion and repute in the world , and that mythology had prepared the people 20 for the belief of such a story . Almost all the ...
... story of Jesus Christ being the Son of God . He was born at a time when the heathen mythology had still some fashion and repute in the world , and that mythology had prepared the people 20 for the belief of such a story . Almost all the ...
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... story Irving wrote : " The fore- going tale , one would suspect , had been suggested to Mr. Knickerbocker by a little German superstition about the Emperor Frederick der Rothbart , and the Kypphauser [ sic ] mountain : the subjointed ...
... story Irving wrote : " The fore- going tale , one would suspect , had been suggested to Mr. Knickerbocker by a little German superstition about the Emperor Frederick der Rothbart , and the Kypphauser [ sic ] mountain : the subjointed ...
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... story writers , Poe completed the threefold progression by which the short story de- veloped . Irving , as the originator of the genre , more or less unconscious of any technique , was primarily concerned with telling a story of ...
... story writers , Poe completed the threefold progression by which the short story de- veloped . Irving , as the originator of the genre , more or less unconscious of any technique , was primarily concerned with telling a story of ...
Contents
From Of Being | 154 |
From Notes on the Mind | 160 |
SELECTED COOPER BIBLIOGRAPHY | 235 |
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