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Page 210 - ... for my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches. They that doubt of these, do not only deny them, but spirits ; and are obliquely, and upon consequence a sort, not of infidels, but atheists.
Page 271 - These principles he indeed professed to deduce from experience and observation, and we have abundant proofs of his diligence in collecting experience, and his accuracy in making observations. But still, in a certain sense at least, he regards individual facts and the detail of experience as of little value, unconnected with the principles which he laid down as the basis of all medical reasoning. In this fundamental point, therefore, the method pursued by Galen appears to have been directly the reverse...
Page 281 - That the greatest and wisest Judges have been Murderers, and the sagest persons Fools, or designing Impostors ; I say those that can believe this heap of absurdities, are either more credulous than those whose credulity they reprehend ; or else have some extraordinary evidence of their perswasion, viz. : That it is absurd and impossible that there should be a Witch or Apparition.
Page 87 - Trouan dui altri differenti in esso Dapoi terrai questo per consueto Ch'el lor" produtto sempre sia eguale Al terzo cubo delle cose neto El residuo poi suo generale Delli lor lati cubi ben sottratti Varra la tua cosa principale. In el secondo de cotesti atti Quando chel cubo restasse lui solo Tu osseruarai quest...
Page 283 - ... by which he could understand things without study, by means of an interior light shining within him. From which you may learn the fact that he had studied with such an enduring obstinacy, that he began to persuade himself that the visions which appeared before him in these fits and transports of -the mind, were the genuine inspirations of the Deity.
Page 271 - in his general principles," says Dr. Bostock, " he may be considered as belonging to the Dogmatic sect, for his method was to reduce all his knowledge, as acquired by the observation of facts, to general theoretical principles. These principles he indeed professed to deduce from experience and observation, and we have abundant proofs of his diligence in collecting experience, and his accuracy in making observations ; but still, in a certain sense at least, he regards individual facts and the detail...
Page 145 - I, who was born poor, with a weakly bod}', in an age vexed almost incessantly by wars and tumults, helped on by no family influence, but forced to contend against the bitter opposition of the College at Milan, contrived to overcome all the plots woven against me, and open violence as well. All the honours which a physician can possess I either enjoy, or have refused when they were offered to me. I have raised the fortunes of my family, and have lived a blameless life. I am well known to all men of...
Page 280 - I think those that can believe all histories are romances; that all the wise could have agreed to juggle mankind into a common belief of ungrounded fables; that the sound senses of multitudes together may deceive them, and laws are built upon chimeras; that the gravest and wisest judges have been murderers, and the sagest persons fools or designing impostors; I say those that can believe this heap of absurdities, are either more credulous than those whose credulity they reprehend, or else have some...
Page 274 - ... the instruction of the deaf and dumb is founded. He says: "Writing is associated with speech, and speech with thought ; but written, characters and ideas may be connected together without the intervention of sounds...
Page 271 - In this fundamental point, therefore, the method pursued by Galen appears to have been directly the reverse of that which we now consider as the correct method of scientific investigation, and yet such is the force of natural genius, that in most instances he attained the ultimate object in view, although by an indirect path. He was an admirer of Hippocrates, and always speaks of him with the most profound respect, professing to act upon his principles, and to do little more than to expound his doctrines...