| George Walker - 1825 - Počet stránok 668
...Antiquity. But the mortallest enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution upon truth, hath been a peremptory adhesion unto authority...most men of ages present so superstitiously do look upon ages past, that the authorities of the one, exceed the reasons of the other : whose persons, indeed,... | |
| Richard Hooker - 1830 - Počet stránok 584
...cap. 10. || [" The mortalleit enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution upon Truth, hath been a peremptory adhesion unto Authority ; and, more especially, Die establishing of our belief upon the dictates of Antiquity. For (as every capacity may observe)... | |
| 1831 - Počet stránok 370
...ANTICtUITY. BCT the mortalest enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution upon truth, hath been a peremptory adhesion unto authority,...our times, their works, which seldom with us pass uncontrolled either by contemporaries or immediate successors, are now become out of the distance of... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - Počet stránok 592
...Antiquity. BUT the mortallest enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution upon truth, hath been a peremptory adhesion unto authority...most men, of ages present, so superstitiously do look upon ages past, that the authorities of the one exceed the reasons of the other. Whose persons indeed... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - Počet stránok 592
...mortallest enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution upon truth, hath been a r, peremptory adhesion unto authority ; and more especially,...most men, of ages present, so superstitiously do look upon ages past, that the authorities of the one exceed the reasons of the other. Whose persons indeed... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - Počet stránok 596
...antiquity. For (as every capacity may observe) most men, of ages present, so superstitiously do look upon ages past, that the authorities of the one exceed...our times, their works, which seldom with us pass uncontrolled, either by contemporaries, or immediate successors, are now become out of the distance... | |
| Esq. James Birch Sharpe - 1841 - Počet stránok 236
...Sec. &c. &c. But the mortallest enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution upon truth, hath been a peremptory adhesion unto authority,...the establishing of our belief upon the dictates of antiquity.—Sir T. Brown's Works. BY JAMES BIRCH SHARPE, ESQ., One of Her Majesty's Justices of the... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - Počet stránok 838
...Corporation of Hull. The mortallest enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution upon truth, hath been a peremptory adhesion unto authority,...especially the establishing of our belief upon the dictate» of antiquity. Broicn't Vulgar Erreur». It being indeed neither possible nor truly reasonable,... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - Počet stránok 568
...Antiquity. BUT the mortallest enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution upon truth, hath been a peremptory adhesion unto authority...most men, of ages present, so superstitiously do look upon ages past, that the authorities of the one exceed the reasons of the other. Whose persons indeed... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1856 - Počet stránok 388
...antiquity :" — " But the mortallest enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution upon truth, hath been a peremptory adhesion unto authority,...of antiquity. For (as every capacity may observe) moat men of ages present so superstitiously do look on ages past, that the authorities of the one do... | |
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