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 287
... speak on old age than one who had been an old man longer than any one else , and had been exceptionally vigorous in ... speaking , not I. Finally , as I sent the former essay to you as a gift from one old man to another , so I have ...
... speak on old age than one who had been an old man longer than any one else , and had been exceptionally vigorous in ... speaking , not I. Finally , as I sent the former essay to you as a gift from one old man to another , so I have ...
Page 312
... speaking and allows flattery to egg him on to his ruin . On this point , then , from first to last there is need of ... speak the truth , the latter never . ” Besides , it is a strange paradox that the recipients of advice should feel ...
... speaking and allows flattery to egg him on to his ruin . On this point , then , from first to last there is need of ... speak the truth , the latter never . ” Besides , it is a strange paradox that the recipients of advice should feel ...
Page 540
... Speak thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . " Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God ...
... Speak thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . " Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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