Vulgar words in Oriental Religions and Christianity - A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the - Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 (Page 1)

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Pagan youths would have listened to Clement when he spoke of Plato as 'the truly noble and half-inspired,' while they would have looked on Tertullian as an ignorant railer, who could say nothing better of Socrates than to call him the 'Attic buffoon,' and of Aristotle than to characterize him as the 'miserable Aristotle.'"

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