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This was pronounced with an amusingly affected gravity. I and the Curate assumed the submissive. While our good old friend and host was thus Socratically lecturing, I saw a ribbon catch the air, and float out towards us a little from the window then appeared half a bonnet, inclined on one side, and downwards, as of one endeavouring to catch sounds more clearly.
"Come, De Montaigne, you are reasoning Socratically. I will ask you plainly and bluntly, would you advise an author to wage war on his literary assailants, or to despise them?" "Both; let him attack but few, and those rarely. But it is his policy to show that he is one whom it is better not to provoke too far.
To get rid of all the rubbish laid upon her, clear back the way to that Nature and start afresh, that is one's only chance. Well, by degrees I won my way, waiting patiently till the bosom, pleased with the relief, disgorged itself of all "its perilous stuff," not chiding, not even remonstrating, seeming almost to sympathize, till I got him, Socratically, to disprove himself.
Nor shall I investigate the more modern claims of the Welsh, founded on the voyage of Prince Madoc in the eleventh century, who, having never returned, it has since been wisely concluded that he must have gone to America, and that for a plain reason if he did not go there, where else could he have gone? a question which most Socratically shuts out all further dispute.
To get rid of all the rubbish laid upon her, clear back the way to that Nature and start afresh, that is one's only chance. Well, by degrees I won my way, waiting patiently till the bosom, pleased with the relief, disgorged itself of all "its perilous stuff," not chiding, not even remonstrating, seeming almost to sympathize, till I got him, Socratically, to disprove himself.
He had a notion he said, that he could argue Socratically; and he was always trying to introduce metaphors into his conversation. But his remarks in a much later letter to a friend on childish reading are so pertinent that I introduce them here.
The Archdeacon put his thin hand on her plump shoulder, and smiled. The old man had a very sunny smile. "I'm sorry to carry on a conversation so Socratically," said he. "But what is 'it'?" "I've never seen anything so physically beautiful, save the statues in the Vatican, in all my life.
Hogg observes, what is confirmed by other testimony, that in reasoning Shelley never lost sight of the essential bearings of the topic in dispute, never condescended to personal or captious arguments, and was Socratically bent on following the dialogue wherever it might lead, without regard for consequences.
"Come, De Montaigne, you are reasoning Socratically. I will ask you plainly and bluntly, would you advise an author to wage war on his literary assailants, or to despise them?" "Both; let him attack but few, and those rarely. But it is his policy to show that he is one whom it is better not to provoke too far.
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