The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves.

  • Johnson, John Noble, 1787-1823.
Date:
1835
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Credit: The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    generally found at variance. They have ])een iini- Ibrmly spoken of with delight l)y all who had the good fortune to partake of them. They consisted of conversations succeeded hy a frugal repast. They were opened by readings from some author of antiquity, or by the discussion of some calm and ingenious question in philosophy, calculated to awaken the attention, and excite the interests of those who were engaged in the argument. In the pleasure of these entertainments Linacre often participated. It was at one of these suppers, which had been protracted beyond the usual hour, that a question was agitated. Whether the vessel of the Argonauts, wdiich was preserved at Athens in the time of Demetrius Phalereus, was the original vessel built by Theseus ? Barbarus as- sumed the negative, and confirmed his superior reputation in dialectics, by founding his argument upon the distinction between the physical and grammatical sense of a word, by which the truth or fallacy of the question was to be determined.* Thus simple were the amusements of Barbarus in the intervals of public employment, to which was added a freedom from the cares which the obligations of a family demand from its master. His time was devoted to study and contemplation, * A description of one of these entertainments, at which this question was agitated, is given by Allessandro de Alessandri, who was a party in the discussion.—Dies Geniales, lib. iii. cap. 1; see also Poggianorum, torn. i. p. xx.