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... learned to write . Dancing was the earliest of the arts . Man danced for joy round his primitive camp - fire after ... learned to write purely for utilitarian reasons , he used this new method for preserving his war - songs and his ...
... learned to write . Dancing was the earliest of the arts . Man danced for joy round his primitive camp - fire after ... learned to write purely for utilitarian reasons , he used this new method for preserving his war - songs and his ...
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... learned how far any man is to be believed ; they have learned whom to trust , and of whom to beware . But this gives you no concern ; nor do you conceive what it is for brave men to have now learned how amiable in itself , how agreeable ...
... learned how far any man is to be believed ; they have learned whom to trust , and of whom to beware . But this gives you no concern ; nor do you conceive what it is for brave men to have now learned how amiable in itself , how agreeable ...
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... learned men in Renaissance Europe , Erasmus was notoriously the most learned . Popes , emperors , and kings conspired to do him honour . Erasmus was one of the last great European writers who wrote in Latin . He was a voluminous author ...
... learned men in Renaissance Europe , Erasmus was notoriously the most learned . Popes , emperors , and kings conspired to do him honour . Erasmus was one of the last great European writers who wrote in Latin . He was a voluminous author ...
Contents
HOMER | 18 |
THE STORY OF THE BIBLE | 41 |
THE ENGLISH BIBLE AS LITERATURE | 74 |
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