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However , on other subjects I have spoken at large , and shall often speak again : this book which I herewith send you is on old age . I have put the whole discourse not , as Alisto of Cos did , in the mouth of Tithonus — for a mere ...
However , on other subjects I have spoken at large , and shall often speak again : this book which I herewith send you is on old age . I have put the whole discourse not , as Alisto of Cos did , in the mouth of Tithonus — for a mere ...
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I am afraid an orator does lose vigour by 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 ...
I am afraid an orator does lose vigour by 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 ...
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This kind of good fortune , then , it is in the power of 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 .
This kind of good fortune , then , it is in the power of 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 .
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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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 | 580 pages |
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