 Nothing is more ridiculous than to make an author a dictator, as the schools have done Aristotle. The damage is infinite knowledge receives by it; for to many things a man should owe but a temporary belief, and a suspension of his own judgment, not an...  Studien zur englischen Philologie - Page 51by Hans Thüme - 1927 - 102 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Philip Sidney - 1787 - 158 pages
...credulity. All thefe are the cobwebs of learning, and to let them grow in us, is either fluttifh or foolifh. Nothing is more ridiculous, than to make an author a Dictator, as the fchools have done Arijlotle. The damage is infinite, knowledge receives by it. For to many things a... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pages
...All these are the cobwebs of learning, and to let them grow in us, is either sluttish, or foolish. Nothing is more ridiculous than to make an author a dictator, as the schools have done Aristotle. The damage is infinite knowledge receives by it ; for to many things a man should owe but a temporary... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 pages
...the cobwebs of learning and to let them grow in us, is either sluttish, or foolish. Nothing is morei ridiculous than to make an author a dictator, as the schools have done Aristotle. The damage is infinite' knowledge receives by it ; for to many things a man should owe but a temporary... | |
 | Appleton Morgan, Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1889 - 654 pages
..." Of all his plays he never gained £200." — Drummond of Hawthornden1, Macmillan, 1873, p. 100. t -'Nothing is more ridiculous than to make an author a dictator, as the schools have done Aristotle." — Jonson, Discoveries. works of Bacon that is not also quoted or referred to in the undoubted works... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 206 pages
...Aristotle. His reflections on the mediaeval worship of a name are not unworthy of modern consideration. Nothing is more ridiculous than to make an author a dictator, as the schools have done Aristotle. The damage is infinite knowledge receives by it : for to many things ;i man should owe but a temporary... | |
 | 1889 - 660 pages
..." Of all his plays he never gained £200." — Drummond of Hawthornden, Macmillan, 1873, p. 100. f -'Nothing is more ridiculous than to make an author a dictator, as the schools have done Aristotle." — Jonson, Discoveries. works of Bacon that is not also quoted or referred to in the undoubted works... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 pages
...All these are the cobwebs of learning, and to let them grow in us, is either sluttish, or foolish. Nothing is more ridiculous than to make an author a dictator, as the schools have done Aristotle. The damage is infinite knowledge receives by it ; for to many things a man should owe but a tem20 //... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...credulity. All these are the cobwebs of learning, and to let them grow in us is either sluttish or foolish. Nothing is more ridiculous than to make an author a dictator, as the schools have done Aristotle. The damage is infinite knowledge receives by it ; for to many things a man o should owe but a temporary... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...credulity. All these are the cobwebs of learning, and to let them grow in us is either sluttish or foolish. Nothing is more ridiculous than to make an author a dictator, as the schools have done Aristotle. The damage is infinite knowledge receives by it ; for to many things a man 20 should owe but a temporary... | |
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