Save for a few inefficacious attempts of the Humanists to use Latin, the field of polite literature was captured wholly by the native tongue.
One of the principal studies of the Humanists was that of grammar, Latin and Greek chiefly.
The Spanish Humanists held a noteworthy place in the development of this movement in Europe.
If we are humanists we believe that this principle of justice, and this feeling of justice ought to be cultivated and made world-wide.
If we are humanists we believe in the rights of individuals, whether men or nations, to their own life and independence, which they are entitled to preserve through all forms of social processes.
The secret of the difference in the educational ideals of those whom we may call the old humanists and the new is that to one education means predominantly learning, and to the other it means mainly living.
The humanists prepared the needful literary medium by introducing classical studies into every town of the peninsula.
Like the humanists from whom he drew his mental lineage, he labored for posterity without reckoning on the actual demands posterity would make.
We have seen in another portion of this book how important a branch of literature the invectives of the humanists had been, how widely they were read, and what an impression they produced upon society.
The very best poetry of the humanists is that which deals with villa-life among the Tuscan hills, beside the bay of Naples, or on the shores of Garda.
Thus the earlier position of the humanists was recognized as false.
Even Humanistshad written an awkward, involved German, with clumsy sentences in unfortunate imitation of the Latin style.
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The liberal humanists (§ 120, 2) had at first taken little notice of Luther’s contention.
In their published works the Italian humanists generally ignored rather than contested the church and its doctrines and morality.
While the reformers employed the word of God, and strove after the salvation of the soul, the humanists employed wit and sarcasm, and sought after the temporal well-being of men.
At =Nuremberg= the humanistsfound a welcome in the home of the learned, wealthy, and noble Councillor Pirkheimer.
In England we meet with two men in the end of the 15th century, closely related to Erasmus, of supreme influence as humanists in urging the claims of reform within the Catholic church.
Luther did not venture into the lists with the savagely sarcastic monk, but the humanists poured upon him a flood of scurrilous replies.
The humanists held him in esteem for having rendered justice to antiquity in his Lecture on Profane Authors and having advised Christians to study it with prudence but with esteem.
The assassination, in 1476, of Gian Galeazzo was followed by commotions and unrest little conducive to the cultivation of the humanities, and which provoked an exodus of humanists and their disciples.
He spent only his leisure hours in the study of the ancient writers, in whom he found pleasure, and rejoiced in the work of the humanists without sharing their opinions.
We humanists follow the saying of Tibullus: 'Whoever confesses let him be forgiven,' and know the world sufficiently to be aware that within the walls of Ilium and without enormities are committed.
The architects of the Renaissance went back to Greek temples and Roman domed buildings for their models, just as the humanists went back to Greek and Latin literature.
To the humanistsonly Latin and Greek seemed worthy of notice.
Already in the sixteenth century the humanists claimed for science the right to follow its own rules without being led and limited by the church's authoritative doctrine.
Show that Rabelais was in close sympathy with the best of the new humanists of his age.
The humanistic realists were in agreement with the classical humanists that the old classical literatures and the Bible contained all that was important in the education of youth.
The reaction against the mediaeval dogmas of the Church and the demand by the humanists of the North for a return to the simpler religion of Christ gradually grew, and in time became more and more insistent.
The enthusiasm of the humanists for the new learning led them to urge the establishment of humanistic secondary schools in the German cities.
The spirit of inquiry which had been aroused by the methods of the humanists would in the future force them to explain and to defend.
The young Humanists would have gladly welcomed him into their select band.
Still the humanists effected a delivery of the intellect from what had become the bondage of obsolete ideas, and created a new medium for the speculative faculty.
Machiavelli had formed for himself a prose style, equalled by no one but by Guicciardini in his minor works, which was far removed from the emptiness of the latinizing humanists and the trivialities of the Italian purists.
The people also saw his position and rallied round him; and the Humanists discerned in him a champion against the old intolerance against which they had been revolting in vain.
Vanity makes most humanists skeptics," wrote Ariosto, "why is it that learning and infidelity go hand in hand?
An enterprising group ofhumanists and lawyers demanded that the government should take over the duty of poor-relief from the church.
Not only humanists like Valla, Lefèvre and Erasmus, but perfectly orthodox theologians like Pope Nicholas V, Cajetan and Sadoletus, saw that the common version could be much improved.
Neither Reformers nor humanists had any searching or thorough revision to propose; all that they asked was that the old be taught better: the humanities more humanely.
He studied law, theology and medicine; he travelled in Germany and Italy and he read the classics, the schoolmen, the humanists and the heretics.
Ariosto treated women like spoiled children; the humanists delighted to rake up the old jibes at them in musty authors; the divines were hardest of all in their judgment.
The heroic examples of Greek and Roman invective paled before the inexhaustible resources of learned billingsgate stored in the minds of the humanists and theologians.
Calvin abhorred the free spirit of the humanists as the supreme heresy of free thought.
Luther proclaimed that chastity was impossible, while the humanists gloried in the flesh.
Scotch humanists on the continent, the Scotch guard of the French king, and Scotch monasteries, such as those at Erfurt and Würzburg, raised the reputation of the country abroad rather than advanced its native culture.
Popes, theologians, humanists like Erasmus, and philosophers like Bruno, all thought a plurality of wives a natural condition.
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Most of these "modern Arians and Antitrinitarians," as they are called in the Twelfth Article of the Formula of Concord came from the skeptical circles of Humanists in Italy.
The Humanists John Wimpheling, Erasmus, and John Colet (who wrote the Catechyzon, which Erasmus rendered into Latin hexameters) urged the same thing.
For the rest, the Italian humanists were scarcely serious enough to undertake a reformation of the Church.
In the eighteenth century indeed, grave English physicians, humanists who forgot how Aristotle had exclaimed that marvellousness lies in all natural phenomena, scorned the trivial curiosity of John Hunter respecting flies and tadpoles.
If you will accept my guidance we can let these humanists resume their labors while we enjoy the accomplishments of those who have gone before.
He had sought to join that company of humanists who had awakened the world to the joy and beauty of intellectual attainment.
They werehumanists before they knew the meaning of the word.
If by my influence I can produce two such modern humanists my labors will not have been in vain.
They were humanists and products of the movement which marked the breaking away from the ascetic severity preceding them.
The well-educated humanists were especially eloquent in preaching reform.
And while many of the sixteenth-century humanists of Italy grew skeptical regarding all religion, their country, as we have seen, did not become Protestant but adhered to the Roman Church.
The standard summary of the work of the humanists is the German writing of Georg Voigt, Die Wiederbelebung des classischen Alterthums, 3d ed.
The new movement snowed itself in Italian sculpture as early as the fourteenth century, owing to the influence of the ancient monuments which still abounded throughout the peninsula and to which the humanists attracted attention.
But gradually the humanists came to be tolerated and even encourage, until several popes, notably Julius II and Leo X at the opening of the sixteenth century, themselves espoused the cause of humanism.
Complaints against the evil lives of the clergy as well as against their ignorance and credulity were echoed by most of the great scholars and humanists of the time.
And the rise of important new German universities called humanists to the Holy Roman Empire.
In this he anticipated the humanists of the following century.
So we find these Humanists declaring that Luther was the St. Paul of the age, the modern Hercules, the Achilles of the sixteenth century.
He stands almost alone among the Humanists in this.
In all this he was followed for the time being by the most distinguished Christian Humanists in England, France, and Germany.
No German so nearly approached the many-sided culture of the leading Italian Humanists as did this citizen of Nuernberg.
A party of Italian Humanists had met in the house of John Argyropoulos in Rome in 1483.
The legal recognition of Humanism within a University commonly showed itself in the institution of a lectureship of Poetry or Oratory--for the German Humanists were commonly known as the "Poets.
It is also to be feared that the Christian Humanists had no real sense of what was needed for that renovation of morals, public and private, which they ardently desired to see.
While it is impossible to say how far Colet, and the Christian Humanists who agreed with him, would have welcomed the principles of a Reformation yet to come, it can be affirmed that he held the same views on two very important points.
English Humanists and reformers, ascended the throne in 1509.
The authority which theHumanists revolted against was merely intellectual, as was the freedom they fought for.
The celebratedHumanists of Florence became the disciples of the great preacher.
To show this, I will first draw an analogy on the biological plane and then I will cite the judgment of great humanists who have sided against civilization.
He and the other humanists merely desired to substitute Aristotle himself in the original for the Latin translation from the Arabic, necessarily misleading, and the Greek and Latin classics for barbarous epitomes.
Before he came to Rome he had by his attainments acquired some reputation among the humanists of Mantua.
According to Strozzi, Ariosto, Calcagnini, and other humanists of Ferrara, it was Ercole himself who constructed this theatre.
The friend and idol of the humanists of his age, he collected rare manuscripts and disseminated copies of them.
It was not until later, after the sciences had been classified and their boundaries defined, that the graceful learning of the humanists degenerated into pedantry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humanists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
