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bursting of ttie bands of venerated au-Sor ity , though perhaps the result often , rather of proud vanity than of pnliffhtened reason , was good , not so much in its immediate produce as m to future effects . A torpefying spell was taken off from the human mind ; onlused
and if the first schoolmen y their new liberties in extravagance and insolence ^ they were soon followed by better thinkers , who combined knowledge with reasoning , and , by a wise moderation , made the freedom they assumed , valuable to themselves and useful to the world .
— tione bonorum temporalium in perfectione status monachorum et elericorum adversus mores Johannis papa . This was printed at Lyons , 1495 . —He also wrote a Tractatum quod Benedictus 12 , papa nonnullas hereses Johannis 22 , amplexus est et
defendit . This was in MS . at Paris , in Bibl . Colbertina . He composed also the compendium errorum Johannis 23 , papae , Tanner , Bib . 555 ; and a defensorum logices , quo convellit violentunn Romani episcopi imperium ; and an invectmim contra ppssessiones Rom . Pont . Leland Descript .
Brit . v . 2 . p . 323 . As he attacked the pope , the pope excommunicated him . He accused the pope of teachings seventy-seven heresies . 40 quitting John of Salisbury I cannot forbear noticing : the account which he gives of his studies , as it shews the
laborious application with which the scholars of the middle ages pursued the knowledge they Talued . He says , that in the year after Henry I . died , he went to the Peiipateticschool at Paris , on the mount of St . Genevieve , and there studied logic ; * he afterwards adhered to Master Alberic , as
<>{> tfl « itjssinms Dialecticus , and an acerrimus ^ pugnator of the Nominal sect . He wa > t * oyears with him , and Robert Metridensis an Englishman , "both men acuti ingenii et studii pervicacis . He then for three years
transferred himself to William de Concliin , to imhibe his grammatical knowledge . — ^ rthis , he followed Richard , called the Kis »» p , retracing with him what he had earned from others , and the quadrivium ; » W also heard the German Harduin . He ri
^ -studied rheto c , which he had learnt r Master Theodoric , and more com-P'etel y from Peter Helias . Being- poor , he ^ PPo rted himself by teaching- the children . n ° ble , and contracted an intimate c q » aintance with Master Adam , an Eng-• tanan and a stout Aristotelian . He projilted afterwards the study of logic with of ik ° Soissolis - Returning at the end oi , i years ) he h <»«* Master Gilbert ftol ° ^' d ntl < * < m divine - subjects ; then « rt Pullen , and also Simon Feriatenslu ,
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It will be unnecessary to detail all the names that may be collected from ancient documents , of the English students of the scholastic philosophy . Pullen , who became a cardinal ; —^ Simon Langton , to whom we owe , in a great measure , Magna Charta ;— . the intrepid and patriotic Bishop Grosteste , foremost in every useful pursuit of his day , the friend and cultivator of poetry , scholastic philosophy , Arabian learning , natural
philosophy , mathematics , divinity and canon and civil law , and the fearless and successful assertor of the liberties of the English church , and protector of the English clergy , against the taxation and tyranny of the pope : ^ commentators on Lombard ' s Book of
Sentences , almost innumerable : these , and many others of equal application , though of minor fame , show in their numerous works the subjects , the nature and the value , of the scholastic
philoa faithful reader , but a heavy disputer . These two last were his only teachers in theology . Thus , he adds , I passed twelve years occupied by these various studies . Metal . 1 . 2 . c . la . p . 802—805 .
21 Robertus Pull en , whose memory is pleasant to all good men , and whom the apostolic seat made a chancellor from a scholastic doctor . '' Metal , p . 746 . 22 Seethe copious and astonishing list
of his works , most still in MS . in Tanner , Bib . Mon . p . 345—351 . They are equal in number to any of the great Arabian philosophers : indeed in one trait he surpassed them , for he also wrote poetry . See his Chasrel < TAmour , Harl . MSS . 1121 .
23 We may g-uess the number of tk « se , from the fact , that no fewer than nine Englishmen of the Christian name of Richard commented upon him—as , R . Rufns , in 1270 5 R . Cornubiensis , R . Ruys , R . Middleton , 1300- R . Nottingham , 1320 ; R . Conington , 1330 ^ R . Wilton , 1339 5 R . Fishacre , 1345 ; and R . Wicking-kam ,
in 1381 . —There were alsonme Roberts , of the British Islands , who chose the same task- as Rob . VVaidock , 1272 ; R Crowe , 1300 ; R . Walsing-hatn , 1310 : R . Carew , 1326 ; R . Cotton , 1340 ; R . Kliphat , 1340 ; R . Leicester , 1348 5 R . Worsop , 1350 ; R . Walaby , 1399 . Also ; three Ralphs , as , Ralph Loxley , 1310 ; R . Acton , 1320 ; R . Radio tor , 1350 . Also , Roger Rcyseth
and Rog-er Swmehead , 1350 ; as also Stephen Petrington , 1417 . As these five Christian names were taken by me at random , I have no doubt that . some others would yield as copious a list of commentators on this celebrated work of the jVlag-istcr Sctttentiarum .
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Hiftoru of the Scholastic Philosophy . 307
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/7/
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