It is certain that his erudition was immense, and that he was probably the most learned man of Japan in that age, and possibly of any other age.
The author, omitting the usual details of history, has devoted himself to the illustration of the constitutional antiquities of his country, in the execution of which he has shown a sagacity anderudition equally profound.
With the fall of the Malatesti and the Sforza family, for instance, erudition died at Rimini and Pesaro.
Though Biondo had but little Greek, and could boast of no beauty of style, his immense erudition raised him to high rank among Italian scholars.
The great work of his literary leisure was a polemical discourse 'Contra Judaeos et Gentes,' for, unlike Marsuppini, he placed his erudition solely at the service of the Christian faith.
At the same time the erudition of the fifteenth century had steeped the whole Italian nation.
At the same time Italian erudition reaches its maximum in Poliziano.
No wonder, therefore, that the limpid fountains of classical erudition were troubled by the piques and jealousies of students.
Not the classics nor the Scriptures alone, but the writings of the schoolmen, the glosses of Arabic philosophers, and the more obscure products of Hebrew erudition had for him their solid value.
His notions, it is true, were fanatical; but hiserudition was great, his understanding excellent, and his industry indefatigable.
The decree of the medical faculty of Paris which placed antimony among the poisons, and which occasioned that of the Parliament of Paris, was composed by Simon Pietre, the elder, a man of great erudition and the most unimpeachable probity.
So in his conversation he allows his erudition to leak out, with the intent that the stranger should say, "What a modest, learned man he is, and what a pleasure it is to meet him.
Such ripe erudition in one whose chief interests lie elsewhere seems to him almost superhuman.
Three generations of pedantic erudition and of courtly or scholastic trifling had separated the men of letters from the men of action, and had made literature a thing of curiosity.
So much of him belonged to the new spirit of the coming age, in which the zeal for erudition was a passion, and the spell of science was stronger than the charms of love.
With his usual strain of extravagant compliment Donne has interwoven some of his deepest thought and most out-of-the-way theological erudition and scientific lore.
With regard to his 'wit', its range and character, erudition and ingenuity, all generations of critics have been at one.
Whoever, therefore, thinks one thing, and teaches another to his followers, appears to be no less destitute of eruditionthan he is of virtue.
We are of opinion that proper erudition consists not in words, nor in elegant and magnificent language, but in the sane disposition of an intelligent soul, and in true opinions of good and evil, and of what is beautiful and base.
But sure there is a middle Way to be followed; the Management of a young Lady's Person is not to be overlooked, but the Erudition of her Mind is much more to be regarded.
Democratic peoples hold erudition very cheap, and care but little for what occurred at Rome and Athens; they want to hear something which concerns themselves, and the delineation of the present age is what they demand.
If they have sometimes recourse to learned etymologies, vanity will induce them to search at the roots of the dead languages; but erudition does not naturally furnish them with its resources.
With fashionable audiences, lightly versed in pulpit lore, he passed for a miracle oferudition and pathos.
There is no reason to believe that the lack of such erudition makes one the less a lady or a gentleman; but its discontinuance is unfortunate for the pantomime ballet.
He does not ask us to infer from this that the steps of the dance were so originated and composed, but in the cause of general joyousness he might have, and that without much damage to the accumulated erudition on the subject.
More often, however, the way in which erudition seeks to serve history is by suppressing historical discoveries as long as possible, and leading out into the field to oppose the one true view an army of possibilities.
In this stage of scholastic preparation, Leonard was necessarily led to the acquisition of languages, for which he had great aptitude--the foundations of a large and comprehensiveerudition were solidly constructed.
The most cursory perusal is sufficient to show the erudition of the author, and a comparatively slight examination raises our estimation of his sagacity and wisdom.
The study of high literature is valuable not as a mere exercise in erudition and linguistic nicety and critical taste, but because the great books mirror best the highest hopes and visions of human nature.
Adepts in a petty erudition without vital antecedents or consequences, they would willingly see the world shrivel to the dimensions of their own landscape.
Let us leave erudition for art and primitive for perfected instruments.
But the dance tunes of the time, on which, perhaps, erudition was not used sufficiently, were written in the same polyphonic style and with the same rigid correctness as the madrigals and the church music.
The contempt of aesthetics and erudition is characteristic of the most typical members of what is known as the Cartesian school, especially Malebranche.
Thus Descartes is a type of that spirit of science to which erudition and all the heritage of the past seem but elegant trifling.
The royal princes therefore stand little chance of instruction in this branch of education, and their acquaintance with the Abyssinian code of jurisprudence must depend also upon the erudition of their preceptors.
Baccio became celebrated for his learning so that according to De Renzi his "profound erudition passed into a proverb in his time.
Many of his own opinions and experiences are incorporated in his work, and in spite of his tendency to display his erudition by quotations, his originality is not seriously interfered with.
The extraordinary eruditionand originality of this treatise (his tenth book) has drawn from M.
He was looked upon as one of the most talented men in Italy of his time and his scholarly erudition made him the friend of learned visitors to Italy from every country in Europe.
Mandosius speaks of him as "a man of great eruditionendowed with high intelligence and with a great zeal for promoting the health of humanity.
We shall not be surprised, then, to find in Dante, the typical product of this form of education, an interest in every form of erudition and in all details of information.
Satires, whose meaning was open to the multitude, defy the erudition of the scholar, and comedies, of which every line was felt as soon as it was spoken, require the labor of an antiquary to explain them.
Parr, who, to the massy erudition of a former age, joined all the free and enlightened intelligence of the present, was one of the under masters of the school; and both he and Dr.
His erudition is great, but it is also critical and interpretative.
The present writer is himself too lacking inerudition to presume to expatiate on that theme.
To have supposed that erudition could be heavy and be deficient in philosophy, was for certain people of a secondary order an unpardonable crime.
Bailly was treated with haughty disdain: "His literary erudition was very superficial; he had not the key of the sanctuary of antiquity; he was everywhere deficient in languages.
Erudition had seized upon some special questions, some detailed points, but no commanding view had presided over these investigations.
