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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    rated and remote froiriithose of higb^r and more difficult attainiiienti i i^ito/.tla^s-.'sbhem'e the elo- quence and poetry-iof>aiUi4uity mmev entei'ed. The works of the :Rojman writes; were Sealed books, on which the i eyes of the pupil were i scarcely al- lowed-to; dwell, whilst .pretended difficulties and perverted explanations inculcated) only a barbarism 6f expressibnl; m unison with thetbarreTJ and super- ficial, information, Which was 4ea?ived i jBfG9ii ■-an 'at- tempt at their |)erusal*ii dUlVXi U) tJeiudii m'J '/olUi boii'jq b;jj^J/ odT ,f) .iudi'iKM'• /.•• » * \yhat isi (hfire- Jtssertpd,,: rjespeijting diheldiistructioaiiafforded; by the, schools throughout England beforp., the Reformation, i^^ derived from Erasmus, h frequent witness to it, and who has e!xposed i( in diftei-efi\t pairt^ ■ of his 'WritihgL in 't^Yvlis of strong and just-reproach, i .i'iNe: recedamus ;ab! jnstitwto; hvijus mali praecipua pars mihi vj^etv^r priri ex puibj;cis scholi;^, (jua^ ambi- tioso vocabulp, ut dixi, nunc appellant Univ^rsitates, quasi nihil absit b'onaa discipli'nae V tiliin ex n^onastdrii^, 'pVaeSertim iis, in quibils instituuntur iad ddctrinara Evangelicam; quad, genus sunt Dominicoruraj, et Franciscanpriim, et Augustinensium. In his enim adolescentes, yix tri^tiesfri. studio grammaticae dato, pro- tinus rapiu'ntu'r'a3' k(it>'hi^ticen, 'dialfecticen, suppositiones, am- pliationds, restri'dtiones,' iexposicitai^s, I'ieisoluti^iieiSi; ad gryphos et questioipujTi labyrjnthos : Jiinc,,;;^^taj iaadj^t,a7]|ieo'lf)gi3e Tales, ubi ventu'm est, ad eos autores, qui utriusque linguae facundia praecelluerunt, Deum immortaleni lU csecutiunt, iiitidelirant, ut sibi videntur in alio prorsilis esse: i7au»do,.ri't-tjP4«i^c^i66'i de rcctd Lalim Gr/cecique. SermonisI'ronmiiati<Me, Lugd. Bft. 164^, p. 29. Hci lived, however, tq see ilSeitteri syatemi puGvail,i• and a set of men competent to enforce the pi^actio© oifi itis, Ac nostro quidem seculo jure gratulamur, quod e ludis literariis penitiis sublatum est illud literatorum genus, qui dum inculcabunt modos significandi, aliasque cot^imentitias difficultates, idque verbis illotis, atque sophisticis, nihil aliud docebant pueros, quam bar- bare loqui, quum gramraatica sit ars emendate loquendi. Vide-