Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Technological progress Technology Progress Modern life The human condition

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Eusabio

Author

Willa Cather

Source

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Citation

Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, bk. 9, ch. 6.

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O Pioneers!
Medium
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Time
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Original Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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The law must be stable, and yet it cannot stand still.

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Legal theory Law
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Roscoe Pound
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1921 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Pound, Roscoe. Lecture delivered before Trinity College. Lent Term, 1922, Trinity College, Cambridge, England, UK.

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She assured them, too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.

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The Scarlet Letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source
The Scarlet Letter
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 24.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.