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Page 73
... who will rest in what he is is a part of destiny " —is in like manner nothing but an exorcism of all skepticism as to the pertinency of one's natural faculties . In a word , " Son of Man , stand upon thy feet and I will speak unto ...
... who will rest in what he is is a part of destiny " —is in like manner nothing but an exorcism of all skepticism as to the pertinency of one's natural faculties . In a word , " Son of Man , stand upon thy feet and I will speak unto ...
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No one , I thought , could with greater propriety speak on old age than one who had been an old man longer than any one else , and had been exceptionally vigorous in his old age . Similarly , having learnt from tradition that of all ...
No one , I thought , could with greater propriety speak on old age than one who had been an old man longer than any one else , and had been exceptionally vigorous in his old age . Similarly , having learnt from tradition that of all ...
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Why , what blessings are these — that the soul , having served its time , so to speak , in the campaigns of desire and ambition , rivalry and hatred , and all the passions , should live in its own thoughts , and , as the expression goes ...
Why , what blessings are these — that the soul , having served its time , so to speak , in the campaigns of desire and ambition , rivalry and hatred , and all the passions , should live in its own thoughts , and , as the expression goes ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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