Schoolman

But that subtle schoolman, Dr. Pusey, said of him, as of modern scientists generally (as distinct from the older scientists from Copernicus to Newton and beyond) that he had done something worse than to deny God; he had forgotten Him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Gardiner had been instrumental in guiding Camelot to part of the $40 million that Philadelphia schoolman, Paul Vallas, was paying out to have Philadelphia's "high-need" students professionally handled. ❋ Jim Horn (2009)

Then Vaca de Castro, the licentiate, the clerk, the schoolman, the man of books, came down on us with his reserve like ❋ Unknown (2007)

He was a very subtle schoolman, who first said that we owe the origin of the word “buffoon” to a little Athenian sacrificer called Bupho, who, being tired of his employment, absconded, and never returned. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And yet a metaphysical schoolman might think, that, where an intention was supposed to be requisite, if that intention really had not place, no consequence ought to follow, and no obligation be imposed. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Ibn Ezra was no schoolman, but he certainly experienced, and expressed in rich and evocative Hebrew, a deep alienation from mundane reality and passionate longing to return to the spiritual realm. ❋ Langermann, Tzvi (2006)

For example, when a schoolman tells me "Aristotle hath said it," all I conceive he means by it is to dispose me to embrace his opinion with the deference and submission which custom has annexed to that name. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And so I would say that sofar as being a schoolman, he was a big inspiration, because I never saw any earmark of racism in him, although I don't know where Hand came from. ❋ Unknown (1976)

Angelo Poliziano, in 1492 exalted the critic and grammarian against the schoolman. ❋ REN (1968)

Kant reasons after the manner of a medieval schoolman, namely by having resort to old - fashioned antinomies. ❋ SALOMON BOCHNER (1968)

Even Motions, the most original mind of the period, saw himself as a schoolman rather than ❋ E. R. DODDS (1968)

The second principle this learned schoolman insists on is, that this gift of perseverance is peculiar to the elect, or predestinate: Disput. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)

I cannot think of any masterpiece the appreciation of which would be enhanced in any degree or manner by the knowledge that it belonged to this or that school; and conversely, I could name any number of third-rate works that are kept artificially alive for centuries through their being assigned by the schoolman to this or that "movement" in the past. ❋ Wilson, Edmund (1965)

Nor, on the other hand, would I say I regard television as representing the destruction of home life and being the end of all conversation and reading because I do remember there was a 16th century schoolman who attacked reading on the ground that it destroyed contemplation. ❋ Unknown (1948)

Glasgow John Major -- the one great schoolman of whom Scotland in the sixteenth century could boast, who had upheld the reputation of his country in the University of Paris as an able and successful teacher of the philosophy and theology of the day. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)

Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury ... is the true type of the schoolman; firmly convinced of the truth of the dogmas and yet possessed of a strong philosophical impulse, he seeks to prove to reason what has to be accepted on authority. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)

Christianity alone, in its pure, orthodox, gospel form, needing no aid from schoolman or philosopher -- taught and teaches. ❋ Various (N/A)

We see clearly the leaven of the Aristotelian spirit working, though Albert is still a schoolman. ❋ Various (N/A)