...tempting it to spread forth Daedalean wings, and soar above the labyrinth in which it was immured. * * * Their philosophy, consequently, was an insincere,...but of a prescriptive authority ; the results of the labor and ingenuity of others taken in their concrete form without analysis, and applied as oracular...

...Scoti, 4 vols. folio, Paris, 1661. Though the philosophy of these men has been characterized as an unreal system, " a collection of principles, the data...and experience, but of a prescriptive authority," yet, as the master minds of a most important period of the world's history, they will always be held...

...the only true philosophy of life as contrasted with that of heathen sages. Whilst the poetry thereof, and history, and eloquence of the classic authors...applied as oracular texts for the deduction of truths." The following estimate of the respective influences of Plato and Aristotle, OD the scholastic philosophy,...

...human mind, rushing all at once to an end, legitimately attainable only by the fruit of matured liabits of thought, and the discipline of all the faculties...applied as oracular texts for the deduction of truths." The, following estimate of the respective influences of Plato and Aristotle, OQ the scholastic philosophy,...