Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Page 298
... Tiberius Gracchus had been so high that he looked upon his wishes as law . " Even if he had wished you to set fire to the Capitol ? " said I. " That is a thing , " he replied , " that he never would have wished . " " Ah , but if he had ...
... Tiberius Gracchus had been so high that he looked upon his wishes as law . " Even if he had wished you to set fire to the Capitol ? " said I. " That is a thing , " he replied , " that he never would have wished . " " Ah , but if he had ...
Page 315
... Tiberius Gracchus , my dear Scipio's father - in - law . It shines with even greater warmth when men are of the same age , as in the case of Scipio and Lucius Furius , Publius Rupilius , Spurius Mummius , and myself . En revanche , in ...
... Tiberius Gracchus , my dear Scipio's father - in - law . It shines with even greater warmth when men are of the same age , as in the case of Scipio and Lucius Furius , Publius Rupilius , Spurius Mummius , and myself . En revanche , in ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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