Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopædia 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 318
... old age . But what need of more ? Cato's own words will at once explain all I feel about old age . M. CATO . PUBLIUS CORNELIUS SCIPIO AFRICANUS ( the younger ) . GAIUS LAELIUS . Scipio . Many a time have I in conversation with my friend ...
... old age . But what need of more ? Cato's own words will at once explain all I feel about old age . M. CATO . PUBLIUS CORNELIUS SCIPIO AFRICANUS ( the younger ) . GAIUS LAELIUS . Scipio . Many a time have I in conversation with my friend ...
Page 322
... old , spoke in favour of the Voconian law in a voice that was still strong and with lungs still sound ; while he , though seventy years old , supported two burdens considered the heaviest of all — poverty and old age - in such a way as ...
... old , spoke in favour of the Voconian law in a voice that was still strong and with lungs still sound ; while he , though seventy years old , supported two burdens considered the heaviest of all — poverty and old age - in such a way as ...
Page 326
... old age , for his art is not a matter of the intellect alone , but of lungs and bodily strength . Though as a rule that musical ring in the voice even gains in brilliance in a certain way as one grows old - certainly I have not yet lost ...
... old age , for his art is not a matter of the intellect alone , but of lungs and bodily strength . Though as a rule that musical ring in the voice even gains in brilliance in a certain way as one grows old - certainly I have not yet lost ...
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