philomath

Updated: May 14, 2025

"Matthew Kavanagh, Philomath." Having posted this document upon the hapel-door, and in all the public places and cross roads of the parish, Mat considered himself as having done his duty. He now began to teach, and his school continued to increase to his heart's content, every day bringing him fresh scholars.

William Carleton - The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three

John the Divine; attended with copious Disquisitions on the relative Merits of moral and physical Philosophy, as contrasted with the pusillanimous Lectures of that Ignoramus of the first Water, Phadrick M'Swagger, falsely calling himself Philomath cum multis aliis quos enumerare longum est: "Humbly Sheweth

William Carleton - The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three

I am neither Philomath nor astrologer; but old Will teaches me, that when green leaves fall winter is at hand, and that darkness will come when the sun sets."

Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock; or, the Cavalier