 Aristotle collect and methodize our ideas, and his syllogism is the keenest weapon of dispute. It was dexterously wielded in the schools of the Saracens, but as it is more effectual for the detection of error than for the investigation of truth, it is...  The Family Library (Harper). - Page 1091842Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1788 - 368 pages
...weapon of difpute. It was dextroufly wielded in the fchools of the Saracens, but as it is more effectual for the detection of error than for the investigation of truth, it is not furprifing that new generations of matters and difciples mould {till revolve in the fametcircle of... | |
 | Michael Russell - Africa, North - 1835 - 466 pages
...conducting debate, and more especially for methodizing the conclusions attained by argument or observation, it was adopted generally in the seminaries established...as in all respects it was better calculated for the defection of error than for the investigation of truth, it is not wonderful, that upon the revival... | |
 | Michael Russell - Africa, North - 1842 - 354 pages
...conducting debate, and more especially for methodising the conclusions attained by argument or observation, it was adopted generally in the seminaries established...detect the principles by which the movements of the materialuniverse are regulated ; and, as in all respects it was better calculated for the detection... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...conducting debate, and more especially for methodizing the conclusions attained by argument or observation, it was adopted generally in the seminaries established...by which the movements of the material universe are regula'ed ; and, as in all respects u was heller calculated for the detection of error than for the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...of dispute. It was dexterously wielded in the schools of the Saracens, but, as it is more effectual for the detection of error than for the investigation of truth, it is not surprising that new generations of masters and disciples should still revolve in the same circle of... | |
 | M. Young - Italy - 1860 - 610 pages
...dispute. It was most dexterously wielded in the schools of the Saracens ; but as it is more effectual for the detection of error than for the investigation of truth, it is not surprising that new generations of masters should still revolve in the same circle of logical argument."1... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Caliphs - 1870 - 458 pages
...of dispute. It was dexterously wielded in the schools of the Saracens, but as it is more effectual for the detection of error than for the investigation of truth, it is not surprising that new generations of masters and disciples should still revolve in the same circle of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 632 pages
...of dispute. It was dexterously wielded in the schools of the Saracens, but as it is more effectual for the detection of error than for the investigation of truth, it is not surprising that new generations of masters and disciples should still revolve in the same circle of... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Arabian Peninsula - 1906 - 612 pages
...of dispute. It was dexterously wielded in the schools of the Saracens, but as it is more effectual for the detection of error than for the investigation of truth, it is not surprising that new generations of masters and disciple* should still revolve in the same circle of... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 612 pages
...of dispute. It was dexterously wielded in the schools of the Saracens, but as it is more effectual for the detection of error than for the investigation of truth, it is not surprising that new generations of masters and disciples should still revolve in the same circle of... | |
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