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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    althoug)i he had studied Cicero and other profane authors, he judged it more prudent to adopt the drier style, which custom had sanctioned, than to step forward as the deviser of novelties, or i^a cbr- rector of the language, which it was the fashion t® employ.-; 'Such)'was his moderation, that he would rather have been thought unlearned than ostentatious; and one great object, which he pro- posed to himself in teaching, wasi tto i? render the topics >of ! whicii) ohB j treatiBd as comptehensifolei 'to his hiearers as possible;! - In ijhisi f Sermons to; ] the multitude he forgot the saint iii 'the preacher,; and was more solicitous to instmct them in the duties which they ought to know, than to acquaint them with what he himself knew. His expositions of the works of Aristotle' ate jtautnerDTiis and laboured, and hisi treatises lipon ijyllogi^m) <kmdn$tration, and fallaciesyp'resent an abridgement of that author, which deservedly enjoyed a preference over other writings drami from the same source. Not satisfied with refuting the errors and heresies which had preceded him, or which then prevailed,' he foresaw and calculated ^ upon..tholes whieh wear© torjfoUow, and his .ti-eatises display.atiy aeuteiiiess of genius, tempered- with a greater porfcioaar ofr.Ohristianrhfta- mility and charity, than belonged to many i of his inferiors, and..second only ito those of -St; Augus- tine, with| whom .he was by comiaaon< consent com- pared.:;m ,nimrTf'>h V .., , .f| Ir, .nou'i.u From this .view of the )doctrirles instituted by