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Encyclopedia > Chrestomathy

Chrestomathy (Greek, from the words khrestos, useful, and mathein, to know) is a selection of linguistic writings which can help you to learn a language.


In philology or in the study of literature, it is a type of reader or anthology which presents a sequence of example texts, selected to demonstrate the development of language or literary style. Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... Wikisource Every Author - Online books and writers forums A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology (José Ángel García Landa, University of Zaragoza, Spain) Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning T... In the twentieth century anthologies became an important part of poetry publishing, for a number of reasons. ...


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Theology: An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.
Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, "Sententiæ: Arcana Cœlestia" (1949), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
The man or the country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
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