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But there was One who heard, and understood. He proved that Man is nothing more Than educated sod, Forgetting that the schoolmen's lore Is foolishness with God. "Do you know what I mean to do as soon as Cousin Maria will let me?" Elisabeth asked of Christopher, as the two were walking together as they walked not unfrequently in Badgering Woods. "No; please tell me."
It is generally observed, That in Countries of the greatest Plenty there is the poorest Living; like the Schoolmen's Ass, in one of my Speculations, the People almost starve between two Meals.
Is more zealous in his false, mistaken piety than others are in the truth; for he that is in an error has farther to go than one that is in the right way, and therefore is concerned to bestir himself and make the more speed. The practice of his religion is, like the Schoolmen's speculations, full of niceties and tricks, that take up his whole time and do him more hurt than good.
Burton's Anatomy was begun as a medical treatise on morbidness, arranged and divided with all the exactness of the schoolmen's demonstration of doctrines; but it turned out to be an enormous hodgepodge of quotations and references to authors, known and unknown, living and dead, which seemed to prove chiefly that "much study is a weariness to the flesh."
A large salt-cellar was placed in the middle of the table: guests of importance sat "above the salt," inferior guests below. Abundant illustrations are given in Nares' Glossary. A large coach: the derivation of the word is uncertain. The next word is illegible in the MS. We should have expected "Exeunt Fer., Man., & attendants." Vid. vol. i. 307. The schoolmen's term for the confines of hell.
For the practical navigator there remained only one course, and that course became the one aim, the consuming ambition of Vancouver's life to destroy the last vestige of the myth of a Northeast Passage; to explore the northwest coast of America so thoroughly there would not remain a single unknown inlet that could be used as a possible prop for the schoolmen's theories, to penetrate every inlet from California to Alaska mainland and island; to demonstrate that not one possible opening led to the Atlantic.
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