 If he engages in controversy of any kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, though less educated minds ; who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack instead of cutting clean, who mistake the point in argument,...  Bombay Quarterly Review - Page 3861855Full view - About this book
 | John Henry Newman - 1859 - 382 pages
...is irreparable, and to death, because it is his destiny. If he engages in controversy of any kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering...misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it. He may be right or wrong in his opinion, but he is too clear-headed... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1873 - 564 pages
...kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, perhaps, but less educated minds; who, like blunt weapons, tear...misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it. He may be right or wrong in his opinion, but he is too clear-headed... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1874 - 484 pages
...kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, perhaps, but less educated minds, who, like blunt weapons, tear...misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it. He may be right or wrong in his opinion, but he is too clear-headed... | |
 | 1875 - 780 pages
...kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, perhaps, much less educated minds, who like blunt weapons, tear...misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it. He might be right or wrong in his opinion, but he is too clear-headed... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - 1882 - 196 pages
...kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, perhaps, but less educated minds, who, like blunt weapons, tear...misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it." [" Idea of a University."] I,,I-' .- •, M. I , . THE SACRED PURPLE.... | |
 | Jacob Youde William Lloyd - 1882 - 442 pages
...kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, perhaps, but less educated minds, who, like blunt weapons, tear...misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it. He may be right or wrong in his opinion, but he is too clear-headed... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - 1882 - 190 pages
...disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy ' of better, perhaps, but less jeducated minds, who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack instead...misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it." [" Idea of a University."] I THE SACRED PURPLE. 14] CHAPTEE IX. THE... | |
 | John Francis Xavier O'Conor - 1898 - 364 pages
...arguments; his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blunderingdiscourtesy of better, perhaps, but less educated minds, who like blunt weapons, tear...misconceive their adversary — and leave the question more involved than they find it. He is as simple as he is forcible, and as brief as he is decisive.... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1899 - 598 pages
...kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, perhaps, but less educated minds ; who, like blunt weapons, tear...misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it. He may be right or wrong in his opinion, but he is too clear-headed... | |
 | Edward Louis Colen Ward - 1899 - 412 pages
...kind his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, perhaps, but less educated minds, who, like blunt weapons, tear...misconceive their adversary and leave the question more involved than they hear by the way. They are annoying, it is true, but not dangerous so long as... | |
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