William Warburton
William Warburton
William Warburtonwas an English writer, literary critic and churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1759 until his death. He edited editions of the works of his friend Alexander Pope, and of William Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth24 December 1698
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soul firsts taught
The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
numbers mutual-interest fire
Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.
enemy principles arguing
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.
ancestry proud birth
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.
passion fire mind
Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.
regulation ancient manners
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
tests reason ridicule
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
imagination mind enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
respect passion mind
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.