 Hence it is, that, like the professional rhetoricians of Athens, not seldom the Christian fathers, when urgently pressed by an antagonist equally mendacious and ignorant, could not resist the human instinct for employing arguments such as would baffle...  Memorials: And Other Papers - Side 239af Thomas De Quincey - 1856Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 670 sider
...advantages anticipate a higher civilization? Most unquestionably some of the fathers were the (life of their own age, but not in advance of their age....fantastic etymologies, or upon popular conceits in science that have long since exploded, but also their occasional unchristian tempers. To contend with... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 sider
...by-standers, in preference to those which will approve themselves ultimately to enlightened disciples. If a man denied himself all specious arguments and...the diseased optics of those habituated to darkness, &c. Blaekwood, 49. " Such are the folios of Schoolmen and Theologians. Let us preserve them in our... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 476 sider
...baffle and confound the unprincipled opponent, rather than such as would satisfy the earnest inquirer. If a man denied himself all specious arguments, and...optics of those habituated to darkness. And hence I explain not only the many gross delusions of the Fathers, their sophisms, their errors of fact and... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 472 sider
...inquirer. If a man denied himself all specious arguments, and all artifices of dialectic subtlety, he rnuet renounce the hopes of a present triumph ; for the...optics of those habituated to darkness. And hence I explain not only the many gross^ delusions of the Fathers, their sophisms, their errors of fact and... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 352 sider
...by-standers, in preference to those which will approve themselves ultimately to enlightened disciples. If a man denied himself all specious arguments and...the diseased optics of those habituated to darkness, &c. " Such are the folios of Schoolmen and Theologians. Let us preserve them in our libraries, however,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1904 - 268 sider
...by-standers, in preference to those which will approve themselves ultimately to enlightened disciples. If a man denied himself all specious arguments and...the diseased optics of those habituated to darkness, etc.—Blackwood, 49. " Such are the folios of Schoolmen and Theologians. Let us preserve them in our... | |
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