 If a man denied himself all specious arguments, and all artifices of dialectic subtlety, he must renounce the hopes of a present triumph ; for the light of absolute truth, on moral or on spiritual themes, is too dazzling to be sustained by the diseased...  Memorials: And Other Papers - Side 237af Thomas De Quincey - 1856Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 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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