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 12
... beginning was to decrease fear and increase opportunity ; its outward effect was to rob the altar of its sacrifice and the priest of his mysteries . Little wonder that from the beginning the disinterestedness of the accred- ited ...
... beginning was to decrease fear and increase opportunity ; its outward effect was to rob the altar of its sacrifice and the priest of his mysteries . Little wonder that from the beginning the disinterestedness of the accred- ited ...
Page 394
... beginning people recognized in Doctor Faustus a braver brother , a somewhat enviable reprobate who had dared to relish the good things of this life above the sad joys vaguely promised for the other . All that the Renaissance valued was ...
... beginning people recognized in Doctor Faustus a braver brother , a somewhat enviable reprobate who had dared to relish the good things of this life above the sad joys vaguely promised for the other . All that the Renaissance valued was ...
Page 414
... beginning - nor does it lie in any revolution in his fortunes , as if in heaven he were to be differently em- ployed than on earth . He is going to teach life to the souls of young boys who have died too soon to have had in their own ...
... beginning - nor does it lie in any revolution in his fortunes , as if in heaven he were to be differently em- ployed than on earth . He is going to teach life to the souls of young boys who have died too soon to have had in their own ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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