 | 1897 - 510 pàgines
...indulgence of their opinions. Ashmand, in the Preface to his translation of the Tetrabiblos, aptly observes: "Among a thousand persons who now treat the mention...respect the unfortunate object of modern derision." Indeed, when one considers the profound scholasticism which individualized these delvers in the storehouse... | |
 | Luke Dennis Broughton - 1898 - 526 pàgines
...than those of Astrology. Among a thousand persons who now treat the mention of this ancient science with supercilious ridicule, there is scarcely one who knows distinctly what it is he laughs at. Such contented ignorance, in persons, too, sufficiently informed in other respects is the more extraordinary,... | |
 | John Hazelrigg - 1996 - 82 pàgines
...indulgence of their opinions. Ashmand, in the Preface to his translation of the Tetrabiblos, aptly observes: "Among a thousand persons who now treat the mention...respect the unfortunate object of modern derision." Indeed, when one considers the profound scholasticism which individualized these delvers in the storehouse... | |
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Yet, with these striking facts before their eyes, the present generation seem never, until now, to have inquired on what basis this belief of their forefathers was established nor by what authority the delusion (if it was one) could have been for so many... 