 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 432 sidor
...wisdom to decline them, especially upon a disavoided. advantage, or when the cause of truth might O * <3 suffer in the weakness of my patronage. Where we desire to be informed, 't is good to contest with men above ourselves ; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1863
...I should dissent myself. I have no genius to disputes in religion, and have often thought it wisdom to decline them, especially upon a disadvantage, or...to be informed, 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves ; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869
...should dissent myself. I have no genius to disputes in religion : and have often thought it wisdom to decline them, especially upon a disadvantage, or...to be informed, 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves ; but, to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1873
...engaged to speak of and for God.f [* " I have often thought it wisdom to decline disputes in religion when the cause of truth might suffer in the weakness of my patronage. Every man is not a proper champion for truth, nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity."... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 567 sidor
...as in the advice which he gives to those who desire to be strengthened in their own opinions. ' When we desire to be informed, 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves ; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873
...as in the advice which he gives to those who desire to be strengthened in their own opinions. ' When we desire to be informed, 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves ; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1874
...should dissent myself. I have no genius to disputes in religion ; and have often thought it wisdom to decline them, especially upon a disadvantage, or...to be informed, 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves ; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 764 sidor
...judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which within a few days I should dissent myself. . . . Where we desire to be informed, 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; hut to confirm and establish our opinions 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1878 - 440 sidor
...religion, and have often thought it wMy" wisdom to decline them, especially upon a dis•Toided. advantage, or when the cause of truth might suffer in the weakness of my patronage. Where we desire to be informed, 't is good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best... | |
 | Oxford city, high sch. for girls - 1879
...of argument ; he says : ' I have no genius to disputes in religion, and have often thought it wisdom to decline them, especially upon a disadvantage, or...truth might suffer in the weakness of my patronage.' And then follows this almost Baconian saying : ' Where we desire to be informed, 'tis good to contest... | |
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Where we desire to be informed, 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves... 
