Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide. - William Warburton
A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.
- William Warburton
The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from h… - William Warburton
The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from h…
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had any… - William Warburton
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had any…
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. - William Warburton
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately ou… - William Warburton
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately ou…
Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of… - William Warburton
Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of…
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. - William Warburton
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. - William Warburton
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy. - William Warburton
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
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