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... fact , embroidery which may have value as well as beauty , since it may reveal a significance in the fact not apparent from the fact itself . My own varying estimates of the facts themselves , as the years passed , showed me too clearly ...
... fact , embroidery which may have value as well as beauty , since it may reveal a significance in the fact not apparent from the fact itself . My own varying estimates of the facts themselves , as the years passed , showed me too clearly ...
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... fact is truly irrelevant . He also has to find a place for the awk- ward fact which does not fit with the pattern of development or the scheme of events as he had at first seen it . This is often a strain on his patience and his ...
... fact is truly irrelevant . He also has to find a place for the awk- ward fact which does not fit with the pattern of development or the scheme of events as he had at first seen it . This is often a strain on his patience and his ...
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... fact pure and unadorned . In the introduction to his first major work he reiterated this dedica- tion in the form in which it is best known , and declared that it is the historian's task only to show what actually happened ( ' Er will ...
... fact pure and unadorned . In the introduction to his first major work he reiterated this dedica- tion in the form in which it is best known , and declared that it is the historian's task only to show what actually happened ( ' Er will ...
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Introduction | 7 |
The Origins of Germany | 19 |
Martin Luther | 28 |
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