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 194
... sense of words : some words originally wide in their application are narrowed to denote shades of meaning ; others originally specific are widened to express relationships . The term vernacular , now meaning mother speech , has been ...
... sense of words : some words originally wide in their application are narrowed to denote shades of meaning ; others originally specific are widened to express relationships . The term vernacular , now meaning mother speech , has been ...
Page 198
... sense of touch as guides to action . Without a constant and alert exercise of the senses , not even plays and games can go on ; in any form of work , materials , obstacles , appliances , failures , and successes must be intently watched .
... sense of touch as guides to action . Without a constant and alert exercise of the senses , not even plays and games can go on ; in any form of work , materials , obstacles , appliances , failures , and successes must be intently watched .
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... sense are the laws of the land , the law of nations , or moral laws ; among which , as already noticed , is dragged in by jurists and publicists something which they think proper to call the law of nature . Of the liability of these two ...
... sense are the laws of the land , the law of nations , or moral laws ; among which , as already noticed , is dragged in by jurists and publicists something which they think proper to call the law of nature . Of the liability of these two ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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