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 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 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 ...
Page 336
... old men to enjoy ; nor is age any bar to our maintaining pursuits of every other kind , and especially of agriculture , to the very extreme verge of old age . For in- stance , we have it on record that M. Valerius Corvus kept it up to ...
... old men to enjoy ; nor is age any bar to our maintaining pursuits of every other kind , and especially of agriculture , to the very extreme verge of old age . For in- stance , we have it on record that M. Valerius Corvus kept it up to ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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