Angelo Poliziano, in 1492 exalted the critic and grammarian against the schoolman. From Wordnik.com. [LITERARY CRITICISM] Reference
There was, indeed, an obscure medieval schoolman, hardly recognized by the historians of. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference
Even Motions, the most original mind of the period, saw himself as a schoolman rather than. From Wordnik.com. [PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY] Reference
We see clearly the leaven of the Aristotelian spirit working, though Albert is still a schoolman. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Kant reasons after the manner of a medieval schoolman, namely by having resort to old - fashioned antinomies. From Wordnik.com. [INFINITY] Reference
Then Vaca de Castro, the licentiate, the clerk, the schoolman, the man of books, came down on us with his reserve like. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
Christianity alone, in its pure, orthodox, gospel form, needing no aid from schoolman or philosopher -- taught and teaches. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
I am mortified: you the schoolman, I the schoolboy!. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
English Franciscan and schoolman, b. at Faversham, Kent; d. at. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Sturm was the greatest and most successful schoolman of his day. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization] Reference
He is neither schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II.] Reference
Already her schoolman Duns Scotus asked "whether matter could not think?". From Wordnik.com. [Selected Essays] Reference
As a schoolman he was styled, in the fashion of the time, Speculum honestatis. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
An innate love of combat was in his heart; he loved discussion like a medieval schoolman. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01] Reference
He is more than an expert, or a schoolman, or a geometer, or the prophet of a peculiar message. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Man (1850)] Reference
In other words, the public schoolman has gone through a mill of discipline out of school as well as in. From Wordnik.com. [As We Are and As We May Be] Reference
Perhaps Pietro dAbano, a medieval alchemist; perhaps a misprint for Albertus (Magnus), the great schoolman. From Wordnik.com. [Scene I] Reference
I run to a dictionary on a disputed word, and I point my inquiring nose upon the page like a careful schoolman. From Wordnik.com. [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference
And I send you, Book, out to those ladies with the supplication of good Master Cino, schoolman and poet, saying. From Wordnik.com. [Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett] Reference
In another section, on the fountains of the island, he deliberately indulges in the humour of some old mediaeval schoolman. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
He, too, was an Oxford professor, a schoolman, and a patriot, but he was animated by a deeper religious feeling than was Occam. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of the Reformation] Reference
Perhaps the problem has already been tackled by the schoolman who pondered how many angels could dance on the point of a needle. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Fancies (Second Series)] Reference
Though he was from many points of view a schoolman, his interests lay rather in moral questions than in logical or metaphysical. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Then Vaca de Castro, the licentiate, the clerk, the schoolman, the man of books, came down on us with his reserve like a whirlwind. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference
Hence endless subtleties, more meaningless and unprofitable than ever occupied the mind of Talmudist or schoolman of the Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans] Reference
Franciscan schoolman, Alexander Hales, in 1222, four years before the death of Francis, joined the order and began lecturing as though. From Wordnik.com. [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference
Champeaux himself, and his axioms are even more familiar to the schoolboy of the twentieth, than to the schoolman of the twelfth century. From Wordnik.com. [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference
"I know the English schoolman," said the manager; "this book will appeal to him. From Wordnik.com. [Three Men on the Bummel] Reference
A voluminous family settlement 'required for its explanation the dialectical skill of an accomplished schoolman. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
A fourth dimension, how was the schoolman to supply it, when even the mathematician of to-day can only infer its necessity?. From Wordnik.com. [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference
"Probably nine-tenths of the people who read that story enjoyed it hugely," continued the schoolman, "and they enjoyed it because it struck. From Wordnik.com. [The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915)] Reference
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