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David Daiches. 756 . FOREWORD What is the purpose of humanistic scholarship ? What , in fact , does the humanist scholar do ? The job of the humanist scholar is to organize our huge inheritance of culture , to make the past available to ...
David Daiches. 756 . FOREWORD What is the purpose of humanistic scholarship ? What , in fact , does the humanist scholar do ? The job of the humanist scholar is to organize our huge inheritance of culture , to make the past available to ...
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... humanist scholar , knowing he can never attain his true goal , is always tempted to run after wooden idols whose cults are less exacting and which proffer an easy bliss . Sometimes the humanist is tempted to bypass the rigorous training ...
... humanist scholar , knowing he can never attain his true goal , is always tempted to run after wooden idols whose cults are less exacting and which proffer an easy bliss . Sometimes the humanist is tempted to bypass the rigorous training ...
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... humanist to other Christian humanists who are expected to share the whole background of knowledge and ideas available to a seventeenth century left - wing Protestant scholar - such a poet surely demands that the modern reader make a ...
... humanist to other Christian humanists who are expected to share the whole background of knowledge and ideas available to a seventeenth century left - wing Protestant scholar - such a poet surely demands that the modern reader make a ...
Contents
MILTON | 32 |
SHAKESPEARE | 49 |
A VARIETY OF INTERESTS AND APPROACHES | 69 |
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