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The Eminent Dignity of Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Gilbert Chinard
Gilbert Chinard*
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Princeton, N.J.
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It is unnecessary to remind this learned audience that the title of this paper was borrowed from the eloquent sermon of Bossuet, delivered almost three hundred years ago, on “The Eminent Dignity of the Poor in the Church.” My feeble voice cannot emulate the majestic periods of the great orator. My only ambition is, in a familiar sermon, to define the position granted to our studies in modern society,—a position somewhat similar to that of the poor in the aristocratic society of the seventeenth century. My purpose is to claim for them the eminent dignity which belongs to them, and to justify the recognition they should obtain at least in academic circles.

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PMLA , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , March 1957, pp. 3 - 13
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1957

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References

Note 1 in page 3 Princeton Alumni Weekly, 12 Oct. 1956, LVII, NO. 4, p. 11.

Note 2 in page 3 Chemical and Engineering News, 18 Feb. 1948, xxvi, No. 7.

Note 3 in page 5 Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. I (1952).

Note 4 in page 5 Yearbook of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia (1955).

Note 5 in page 5 Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, LXXXIII, NO. 2, p. 75.

Note 6 in page 7 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 15 April 1955, XCIX, No. 2.

Note 7 in page 8 “Remarks on National Literature,” Works, American Unitarian Assn. (Boston, 1877), p. 126.

Note 8 in page 8 Association of American Colleges Bulletin, December 1947, xxxiii, No. 4.

Note 9 in page 9 Letter to John Taylor, 27 Feb. 1818.

Note 10 in page 11 December, 19S5, Pub. by The Fund for the Advancement of Education.

Note 11 in page 13 Proceedings Am. Phil. Soc, cit., p. 35.