The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise,… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
