Belief and Disbelief in American LiteratureTom Paine and republican religion -- Landscape as religion: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- Transcendentalism and Emerson -- The cosmic optimism of Walt Whitman -- The pessimism of Mark Twain -- The cosmic loneliness of Robert Frost. |
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... clear - headed in matters when I was often so vague ; I remember his tact when he thought I was not putting a point in quite the right way to the General Board or some other body and Ratcliffe would chip in with ' We think , don't we ...
... clear - headed in matters when I was often so vague ; I remember his tact when he thought I was not putting a point in quite the right way to the General Board or some other body and Ratcliffe would chip in with ' We think , don't we ...
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... clear position from which to interpret this film . Stone's final long - shot of the battlefield from the helicopter taking Chris out of Vietnam ( as twice wounded , he doesn't have to return to combat ) gives only a false sense of ...
... clear position from which to interpret this film . Stone's final long - shot of the battlefield from the helicopter taking Chris out of Vietnam ( as twice wounded , he doesn't have to return to combat ) gives only a false sense of ...
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... clear light of a previous death . This does not contradict in any way the assertion in Sutra that samsara is caused ... clear light . This is the reason behind the first statement that the all - empty clear light is the cause of rebirth ...
... clear light of a previous death . This does not contradict in any way the assertion in Sutra that samsara is caused ... clear light . This is the reason behind the first statement that the all - empty clear light is the cause of rebirth ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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