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...Life of a Great Sinner was the title that Dostoevsky gave to a vast novel for which he made reams of notes but which he never managed to write. Instead, members of A Great Sinner's huge projected cast of characters kept escaping prematurely from their creator's notebooks and showing up in his completed works. Some of them became prominent people in The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov; a few (including the Great Sinner himself, in his young manhood) became part of A Raw Youth, least known of Dostoevsky's major novels. Published first...
...might say, 'Try religion.' Why should I? I don't feel a sinner, and, anyway, you haven't seen our parson. He isn't even a man. So far as I can see, the churches seem to have plenty of troubles of their own without bothering them with mine. Squabbling and preaching are all they're good for, and I can get along without either, thank...
When sufficiently beery, however, Fred's guests astounded him by doing what they thought was expected of them: breaking into Are You Ready for the Judgment Day, followed by other favorite Salvation Army hymns. When silence fell, a sinner rose and quaveringly confessed. Sorrowing and defeated, the free-thinking host fled into the night...
...capital's outskirts the pastor told his flock: "Article 66 [of the electoral laws] forbids priests carrying on political propaganda in church. I respect this law. But no one can prevent me from reminding you that crucified Christ had two thieves at his side . . . the greater sinner was the one on the left...
...Saint or Sinner. Smith's kingdom, as he said, was of this world. In Mormonism's early, monogamous days, big, handsome Joseph exclaimed: "Whenever I see a pretty woman, I have to pray for grace." Sometimes grace failed. A Mormon apostate published a vitriolic exposure of Joseph's clandestine marriages. Then one day, after long argument with his (original) wife, Joseph announced a new revelation ; by it, plural marriage became a part of the Mormon code, remained so until...