mediaevals

The strictures of the “mediaevals” against profit lucrative profits is then made to look ridiculous and out of touch with real economic life in the 21st century.

Chesterton and Capitalism Part Three 2008

The mediaevals resolved their difficulty by suggesting that the identical form may have two modes of existence, physical and intentional.

Existence Miller, Barry 2002

The common bond is in the fact that ancients and moderns have both been miserable about existence, about everything, while mediaevals were happy about that at least.

Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

"But mediaevals were superstitious"; if I want to know in what they were superstitious, the only ultimate answer is that they believed in the miracles.

Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

That organ, the site of the innate heat in Galen's view, had the power of elaborating the chyle into venous blood and of imbuing it with a spirit or pneuma which is innate in all living substance, so long as it remains alive, the _natural spirits_ (πνευμα φυσικον {pneuma physikon}, _spiritus naturalis_ of the mediaevals).

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

The mediaevals had as much trouble in reconciling free-will with judicial astrology as we with the divine foreknowledge.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

Coulton had maintained that the mediaevals condemned dancing as much as the

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

From which he concluded that modern design should always be founded on natural form, rather than upon the traditional patterns of the east or of the mediaevals.

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

The common bond is in the fact that ancients and moderns have both been miserable about existence, about everything, while mediaevals were happy about that at least.

Orthodoxy 1905

"Mediaeval documents attest certain miracles as much as they attest certain battles," they answer, "But mediaevals were superstitious"; if I want to know in what they were superstitious, the only ultimate answer is that they believed in the miracles.

Orthodoxy 1905