Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought and LearningSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1920 - 327 pages |
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Page 31 - Moses' seat : all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do ; but do not ye after their works : for they say, and do not.
Page 212 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Page 186 - I found them as before, and where they were before ; nor did they appear to have reached the goal in unravelling the old questions, nor had they added one jot of a proposition.
Page 102 - We are as dwarfs mounted on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more and further than they : yet not by virtue of the keenness of our eyesight, nor through the tallness of our stature, but because we are raised and borne aloft upon that giant mass,
Page 30 - Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh ; yea though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
Page 14 - Gaul, men learned without compare, as well in secular as in sacred writings ; who, since they showed nothing for sale, kept crying to the crowd that gathered to buy, ' If any man is desirous of wisdom, let him come to us and receive it ; for we have it to sell.
Page 181 - I'Eveque] a man whose training was deficient almost in nothing, who had more heart even than speech, more knowledge than skill, more truth than vanity, more virtue than show: and the things I had learned from others I collected all again from him, and certain things too I learned which I had not before heard and which appertain to the Quadrivium, wherein formerly I had for some time followed the German Hardwin. I read also again rhetoric, which aforetime I had scarce understood when it was treated...
Page 14 - the illustrious Charles had begun to reign alone in the western parts of the world, and the study of letters was everywhere well-nigh forgotten, in such sort that the worship of the true God declined, it chanced that two Scots from Ireland lighted with the British merchants on the coast of Gaul, men learned without compare, as well in secular as in sacred writings ; who, since they...
Page 273 - ... quoque, aeque presbyterum et monachum, acerrimi ingenii virum, et in omnibus disciplinis literatoriae artis eruditissimum, et in 10 multis aliis artibus artificiosum. Quorum doctrina regis ingenium mnltum dilatatum est, et eos magna potestate ditavit et honoravit.
Page 36 - The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness ; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ev.er could aforetime induce the heathen to believe.