Science and Literature in the Middle Ages: And at the Period of the Renaissance

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D. Appleton & Company, 1878 - 552 Seiten
 

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Seite 346 - Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Seite 345 - And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. "And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.
Seite 345 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Seite 162 - Paris. instead of a franc." These precautions were evidently taken in order that access to the professorships of St. Cosmo might be limited to students who, by their learning and application to work, would be capable of sustaining the aristocracy of the surgical body against the invading democracy of the barbers. There was, moreover, very ample room for choice, as the College of St. Cosmo comprised only ten sworn surgeons. The number of barbers, upon the other hand, steadily increased, and from forty,...
Seite 355 - Jamais en tere n'orrez plus dolent hume." * ... Henceforward the French language is an accomplished fact. It is the Oil language. It still clings close to Latin, from which it borrows some of its most ingenious and narrowly...
Seite 352 - Pro Deo amur et pro Christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo et in...
Seite 378 - II a voulu se tourner du côté de l'Espagne. Il se prit alors à se souvenir de plusieurs choses : De tous les pays qu'il a conquis, Et de douce France, et des gens de sa famille, Et de Charlemagne, son seigneur, qui l'a nourri ; II ne peut s'empêcher d'en pleurer et de soupirer.
Seite 377 - Ma Durendal, comme tu es belle et sainte ! • Dans ta garde dorée, il ya bien des reliques : » Une dent de saint Pierre, du sang de saint Basile, » Des cheveux de monseigneur saint Denis, » Du vêtement de la vierge Marie. > Non...
Seite 58 - Cistercian monastery, where he died, after a few days' illness, at the age of forty-eight. Thomas Aquinas, whom the Church afterwards placed amongst her saints, left the highest reputation behind him in the Paris schools. He was called the Second St. Augustine, the Angel of the Schools, the Angelic Doctor, the Doctor of Doctors. In fact, his was the only theology taught in most of the Catholic schools subsequently to the thirteenth century. Fig. 45 — St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, wearing the...
Seite 108 - Arab doctors recommended the moderate use of cassia, senna, and tamarinds : a quantity of plants useful for medicinal purposes were brought from India, Persia, and Syria by Rhazes. At the same time Serapion the younger commentated Dioscorides, and added to that work a description of the newly discovered plants ; and Avicenna scoured Bactriana and Sogdiana in search of medicines, and especially of vegetable preparations. Mesue wrote his treatise on Medicine ("De Re Medica"), which, several times translated...

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