American Critical Essays: XIXth and XXth CenturiesNorman Foerster H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 520 pages |
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... morality and your conscious moral purpose ? Will you not define your terms and explain how ( a novel being a picture ) a picture can be either moral or immoral ? You wish to paint a .moral picture or carve a moral statue : will you not ...
... morality and your conscious moral purpose ? Will you not define your terms and explain how ( a novel being a picture ) a picture can be either moral or immoral ? You wish to paint a .moral picture or carve a moral statue : will you not ...
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... moral ones , of which he had none . The whole world of morals was a terra incognita to him — not at all the same thing as saying , which is also true , that he had no morals . Coleridge , for example , has been said to have had none ...
... moral ones , of which he had none . The whole world of morals was a terra incognita to him — not at all the same thing as saying , which is also true , that he had no morals . Coleridge , for example , has been said to have had none ...
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... moral order , there must be a cosmic will or in- tention , since a moral order implies a corresponding scheme or plan . But what is this moral sense or purpose , this cosmic will ? It cannot be necessity , for that frequently resists or ...
... moral order , there must be a cosmic will or in- tention , since a moral order implies a corresponding scheme or plan . But what is this moral sense or purpose , this cosmic will ? It cannot be necessity , for that frequently resists or ...
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EDGAR ALLAN POE 18091849 | 1 |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 18031882 | 29 |
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 18191891 | 57 |
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