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Tricky sentence. Please give a hand.
Several questions about this sentence.Please help.
" As a Victorian specialist, Matthew was at pains to make the point that biography was not solely the result of 19th centry evangelicalism, with its self-conscious labouring of life and death choices that were personal, immediate and unworldly."
1.What does "its" refer to?
2.What's the meaning of "self-conscious labouring of life and death choices ", "choices regarding self-conscious labouring of life and death" or "self-conscious labouring of life and choices regarding death"?
3.What does "that" in last clause refer to?
Thank you
" As a Victorian specialist, Matthew was at pains to make the point that biography was not solely the result of 19th centry evangelicalism, with its self-conscious labouring of life and death choices that were personal, immediate and unworldly."
1.What does "its" refer to?
2.What's the meaning of "self-conscious labouring of life and death choices ", "choices regarding self-conscious labouring of life and death" or "self-conscious labouring of life and choices regarding death"?
3.What does "that" in last clause refer to?
Thank you
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- What does "its" refer to?
- What's the meaning of "self-conscious evangelical people wre very self-involved, conscious of themselves labouring stressing, worrying excessively about .
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Hi,
Several questions about this sentence.Please help.
" As a Victorian specialist, Matthew was at pains to make the point that biography was not solely the result of 19th centry evangelicalism, with its self-conscious labouring of life and death choices that were personal, immediate and unworldly."
1.What does "its" refer to? evangelicanism
2.What's the meani
Several questions about this sentence.Please help.
" As a Victorian specialist, Matthew was at pains to make the point that biography was not solely the result of 19th centry evangelicalism, with its self-conscious labouring of life and death choices that were personal, immediate and unworldly."
1.What does "its" refer to? evangelicanism
2.What's the meani
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