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Shakespeare ' s , have broken through e TCry difficulty of birth and station . " It may be added , that a learned bishop , whose practical writings glow with a devotional spirit , and whose commentaries are still in high
estimation , published also an allegorical work , entitled " The Pilgrim ? but not with a success or reputation that could in any degree rival Bunvan s performance . The writer of this recollects that at a classical lesson , when he was at St . Paul ' s school , Mr .
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History of the Scholastic Philosophy . , From Sharon Turner ' s History of England , from the dormant Conquest to the Accession of Edward the First . la one vol . 4 to . 1814 , Pp . 490—501 . ] THE study most cultivated in England and in Europe by the more
active minds in the twelfth century , was that mixture of logic and metaphysics which had characterized the Arabian philosophy , and which abounds in the works of the schoolmen .
The human mind in its various operations—the senses , and their perceptions—the causes and essences , arid relations of things—intellect in the abstract ; its logical exercitations—the divine nature , the future existence of
the soul , and the anatomy of the organs of sense —werefavourite topics with the great Arabian sages . To men wtheir refined and acute minds , the specious works of Aristotle proved an irresistible temptation to fathom his apparent profundity , and to exercise the mselves by his rules ; and many Arabians became his translators and
n 10 Bishop Patrick . Biographia Britannica ; Granger ' s 1 It ? <* i nland ; British Biography , as ^ ore ; ^ Crosby , vol . iii . p . 63-7 l dehil i ^""* in his treatise on the soul , vifip ! u a . natom y- He says the soul vib tj le fi animal frOln the heart ' The heart J 8 flirt C — «« v-m , « »/ . . * mmlk .- > juu . i u 8 incile
^ anar / li p > and from Aat virtues form f ? . the brain ; of which some per-^ nches " a ^ tlOnS in this or ^ an and its « xt erna | ' some proceed from it to of moti part « , as to the pupil and muscles tie b rain 1 1 S tlleor ^ the functions of tlle antp ' eS th < i COI " Dfiort sensorium in * mem y eatricles > and cogitation tlle PWe a 7 - the two others ~ making Avic « mia deA ^ in th ° V ° * rl 0 * '
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Allen , the learned editor of Demosthenes , passed high encomiums on the latter work , as greatly superior in point of invention to the former , which has now sunk into oblivion . This article , it may be apprehended *
has been carried to a length beyond the proportion of room it should occupy in a work not professedly biographical ; but the singularity of the character will be admitted as an apology .
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commentators . Their example diffused a taste for logic and foriAristotle , for beyond what Greece itself , in the highest prevalence of the Peripatetics , had ever experienced . Aristotle was first contemplated in the abstract of Boethius , and in the
introduction of Porphyry . The Isagoge of the latter is a concise compendium of the system of the Stagyrite , with easy illustrations of his principal terms and definitions , and especially of his celebrated Predicaments . On this work Averroes commented f and his commentary was
3 The Arabian account of Aristotle ' s writings , quoted by Casiri , 304—308 , states the principal Arab translators and commentators of the various works of Aristotle . —Buhle , in his late copious edition of Aristotle ^ has prefixed a short notice of the Arabian interpreters of Aristotle , vol . i . p . 321 . Bipont . 1791 .
The followers of Aristotle never formed more than a sect , in Greece . The Platonists , the Epicureans , and the Academics , were far more popular . At one time his writing's were nearly lost in the Roman empire . 4 Porphyry , in his proemium to the
Isag-oge , professes to write it as a compendious introduction to Aristotle , abstaining from the loftier questions . It is a neat summary of Aristotle ' s logical system , with explanations and illustrations of his principal terms arrd distinctions . I have no where seen a better account of the Aristotelian system .
Averroes says , that he expounds Porphyry at the the request of some friends ; but that in his own opinion , this introduction was not necessary , because the great master ' s terms were sufficiently intelligible . —Levi Ghersonides also made his annotations in which he remarks , that he differs from Aristotle in considering- the art not to be scienoe , but an- org-anum to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/5/
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