1. Billy Budd (Full)
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1 358 Preface for ——//——Billy Budd? The year 1797, the year
of this narrative, belongs to a period
which as every body ^ thinker now feels,
involved a crisis for Christendom
1 not exceeded in its undetermined 41
momentousness at the time by any
other recorded event. era . ^ whereof there is record. The
opening proposition made by
the Spirit of the Age, ^ was one involved
hailed by the noblest men of it.
Even the dry tinder of a Wordsworth
took fire. The Old World's
1 358 Preface for ——//——Billy Budd? The year 1797, the year
of this narrative, belongs to a period
which as every body ^ thinker now feels,
involved a crisis for Christendom
1 not exceeded in its undetermined 41
momentousness at the time by any
other recorded event. era . ^ whereof there is record. The
opening proposition made by
the Spirit of the Age, ^ was one involved
hailed by the noblest men of it.
Even the dry tinder of a Wordsworth
took fire. The Old World's

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