burgursdicius

Updated: May 28, 2025

Waldgrave, and less contemptible than Dr. . About the same time, and in the same walk, a Bentham was still treading in the footsteps of a Burton, whose maxims he had adopted, and whose life he had published. The biographer indeed preferred the school-logic to the new philosophy, Burgursdicius to Locke; and the hero appears, in his own writings, a stiff and conceited pedant.

Edward Gibbon - Memoirs of My Life and Writings