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O! but to understand this, which is a puff at the fire of Diana's temple you must read Longinus read away if you are not a jot the wiser by reading him the first time over never fear read him again Avicenna and Licetus read Aristotle's metaphysicks forty times through a-piece, and never understood a single word.
He told me what he read SOLIDLY at Oxford was Greek; not the Grecian historians, but Homer and Euripides, and now and then a little Epigram; that the study of which he was the most fond was Metaphysicks, but he had not read much, even in that way.
In spite of so excellent a teacher, we find Master Coleridge, Even before my fifteenth year, bewildered in metaphysicks and in theological controversy. Nothing else pleased me. History and particular facts lost all interest in my mind. Poetry itself, yea novels and romances, became insipid to me.
The time at church, he wrote, falls into three divisions: first, that before service, which is filled by the giving and receiving of business letters, the reading of advertisements and the discussion of crop prices and the lineage and qualities of favorite horses; second, "in the church at service, prayrs read over in haste, a sermon seldom under and never over twenty minutes, but always made up of sound morality or deep, studied metaphysicks;" third, "after service is over, three quarters of an hour spent in strolling round the church among the crowd, in which time you will be invited by several different gentlemen home with them to dinner."
'We are as strong as they, and a great deal wiser. This was an assault upon one of Lord Monboddo's capital dogmas, and I was afraid there would have been a violent altercation in the very close, before we got into the house. But his lordship is distinguished not only for 'ancient metaphysicks', but for ancient politesse, la vieille cour, and he made no reply.
Johnson at first said, 'I'll trust theology to nobody but myself. But, upon due consideration, that Percy is a clergyman, it was agreed that Percy should teach practical divinity and British antiquities; Dr. Johnson himself, logick, metaphysicks , and scholastick divinity. In this manner did we amuse ourselves; each suggesting, and each varying or adding, till the whole was adjusted. Dr.
'I'll trust theology to nobody but myself. But, upon due consideration, that Percy is a clergyman, it was agreed that Percy should teach practical divinity and British antiquities; Dr Johnson himself, logick, metaphysicks and scholastick divinity. In this manner did we amuse ourselves, each suggesting, and each varying or adding, till the whole was adjusted.
But his lordship is distinguished not only for 'ancient metaphysicks, but for ancient politesse, 'la vieille cour' and he made no reply . His lordship was dressed in a rustick suit, and wore a little round hat; he told us, we now saw him as Farmer Burnet , and we should have his family dinner, a farmer's dinner. He said, 'I should not have forgiven Mr. Boswell, had he not brought you here, Dr.
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