 | Thomas Taylor - Philosophy, Ancient - 1812 - 628 pages
...and gentry, instead of modern maxims, would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. But in these free-thinking times many an empty head is shook at Aristotle and Plato, and the writings of those celebrated ancients are by most men treated on a foot with the dry and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Religion - 1816 - 298 pages
...and gentry instead of modern maxims would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. But in these free-thinking times^ many an empty head is shook at Aristotle and Plato: and the writings of these celebrated ancients are by most men treated on a level with the dry and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Religion - 1817 - 190 pages
...and gentry instead of modern maxims would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. But in these free-thinking times, many an empty head is shook at Aristotle and Plato: and the writings of these celebrated ancients are by most men treated on a level with the dry and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 184 pages
...and gentry instead of modern maxims would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. But in these free-thinking times, many an empty head is shook at Aristotle and Plato *. and the writings of these celebrated ancients are by most men treated on a level with the dry and... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...and gentry, instead of modern maxims, would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. But in these freethinking times many an empty head is shook...lucubrations of the schoolmen. It may be modestly presumed, tiiere are not many among us, even of those who are called the better sort, who have more sense, virtue,... | |
 | William Mills - Ethics - 1830 - 58 pages
...and gentry, instead of modern maxims, would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. But in these free-thinking times, many an empty head is shook...the dry and barbarous lucubrations of the schoolmen. Siris in Berkeley's Works, vol. II. p. 613. 32 lations, and which the investigations of such men as... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1832 - 244 pages
...and gentry instead of modern maxims would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. But in these free-thinking times, many an empty head is shook at Aristotle and Plato : and the writings of these celebrated ancients are by most men treated on a level with the dry and... | |
 | Charles James Blomfield - Philosophy, Ancient - 1853 - 452 pages
...of modern maxims, would imbibe die notions of die groat men of antiquity. Hut in (lioso frecdiinking times, many an empty head is shook at, Aristotle and Plato, as well as at thr Holy Scriptures. And Ihn writings of those celebrated ancients arc by most men treated on a foot... | |
 | 1856 - 540 pages
...and gentry, instead of modern maxims, would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. But in these free-thinking times, many an empty head is shook...Aristotle and Plato, as well as at the Holy Scriptures. " — iSirw, in Bishop Berkeley's Works, vol. ii. p. 613, quoted by Mills. eluded in their school-list... | |
 | Theology - 1869 - 580 pages
...instead of modern maxims, would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. But in these loose times many an empty head is shook at Aristotle and Plato, as well as at the Holy Scriptures. Certainly, where a people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings... | |
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Albeit in these days, the depths of that old learning are rarely fathomed, and yet it were happy for these lands, if our young nobility and gentry, instead of modern maxims, would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity. But in these freethinking... 
