Some by Old Words to Fame have made Pretence;
Ancients in Phrase, meer Moderns in their Sense!
Some by Old Words to Fame have made Pretence;
Ancients in Phrase, meer Moderns in their Sense!
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
By the gods of the ancients!
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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