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Translator names not noted above: Mary L. Booth and Orlando W.
Wight.Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name
"Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of
the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and
mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT
(1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also
known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's
belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading
from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of
bookshelf.Volume XLVIII features three collections of the writings
of French polymath BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662): Thoughts, considered
a great classic of religious writings, in which the former child
prodigy mounts a sophisticated defense of his Catholic faith;
Letters, to his friends and family as well as to the Swedish queen
Christina; and Minor Works, including "Prayer, to Ask of God the
Proper Use of Sickness," "Discourses on the Condition of the
Great," "The Art of Persuasion," and more.
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