| David Wootton - 1994 - 518 páginas
...ancient crimes often lead us to imitate or tolerate them."29 Two decades later, his views were unchanged. "Were every Greek and Latin book (the New Testament...consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and better for it," he thundered. "Delenda, delenda est lingua Rom ana should be the voice of reason and... | |
| Richard D. Brown - 1996 - 280 páginas
...Philadelphia physician was concerned, "were every Greek and Latin book (the New Testament excepred) consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and the berrer for it." Rush classed such books "with Negro slavery and spirituous liquors, ... as, though... | |
| Peter McNamara - 1999 - 278 páginas
...ancient crimes often lead us to imitate or tolerate them."66 Two decades later, his views were unchanged. "Were every Greek and Latin book (the New Testament...consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and better for it," he thundered. "'Delenda, delenda est lingua Romana' should be the voice of reason and... | |
| John C. Shields - 2004 - 482 páginas
..."Tranquillizer," a chair designed to restrain maniacal patients. In a letter of October 2, Rush had quipped, "Were every Greek and Latin book (the New Testament...consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and better for it" (Letters 2: 1067). Adams replied on October H, opining that only a period of confinement... | |
| 106 páginas
...wonderful increase of knowledge in all useful arts and sciences." "* He called it "monkish learning," and declared : "Were every Greek and Latin book (the New...consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and better for it." They were suitable for the idle and the rich, but not for the needs of the modern world.... | |
| 92 páginas
...Latin and Greek and the classical authors, when they should be reading English and French writers. "Were every Greek and Latin book (the New Testament...consumed in a bonfire, the world would be the wiser and better for it." They were suitable for the idle and the rich but not for the needs of the modern world.... | |
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