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"ref": "1645: James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, “The Requiem or Libertie of an Impriſoned Royaliſt”, verse 3; in The Great Aſſiſes Holden in Parnaſſus by Apollo and His Aſſeſſovrs, pages 83–84",
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"text": "I, while I wiſht to bee Retir’d,\nInto the private room was turn’d;\nAs if their wiſdoms had conſpir’d\nA Salamander ſhould bee burn’d:\nAnd like thoſe Sophies who would drown a Fiſh"
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"ref": "1678: Samuel Butler, Hudibras, third part, first canto, lines 1,423–1,424 (1709 republication)",
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"ref": "1688: William Bates, The Harmony of the Divine Attributes, chapter V, page 75 (This quotation is taken from the third edition because, although the work was first published in 1674, this extract first appeared in that later edition; meanwhile, the specific page reference and link refer to an 1815 republication.)",
"text": "The apostle tells us, 1 Cor. 1. 23. that “Christ crucified was to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Gentiles foolishness.” The grand Sophies of the world esteemed it absurd and unreasonable to believe, that he who was exposed to sufferings, could save others: but those who are called, discover that the doctrine of salvation, by the cross of Christ, which the world counted folly, ver. 24. is the great “wisdom of God,” and most convenient for his end."
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"text": "Francis Moyen was, as here described, an interesting character in his way; a sparkling, talented, thoughtless Parisian, full of adventure and, with his beloved violin in his baggage, ever on the wing. Voltaire and Boileau were winning the world in those days. Moyen, like every young man of the period, had read them, could quote them, and would sometimes utter himself in their particular sophy; half scoffing, and half religious, and half philosophical by turns, a thorough Frenchman, carelessly throwing off his first thoughts whatever they were and whoever was near.",
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"ref": "1645: James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, “The Requiem or Libertie of an Impriſoned Royaliſt”, verse 3; in The Great Aſſiſes Holden in Parnaſſus by Apollo and His Aſſeſſovrs, pages 83–84",
"roman": "I am condemn’d to ſuffer what I wiſh.",
"text": "I, while I wiſht to bee Retir’d,\nInto the private room was turn’d;\nAs if their wiſdoms had conſpir’d\nA Salamander ſhould bee burn’d:\nAnd like thoſe Sophies who would drown a Fiſh"
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"ref": "1654, Richard Whitlock, Ζωοτομία; or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English, page 47:",
"text": "It were to be wisht their Ideas…were undisputable among the Sophies themselves in Physick.",
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"ref": "1678: Samuel Butler, Hudibras, third part, first canto, lines 1,423–1,424 (1709 republication)",
"text": "Sir, (quo’ the Voice) y’ are no ſuch Sophy\nAs you would have the World judge of ye."
},
{
"ref": "1688: William Bates, The Harmony of the Divine Attributes, chapter V, page 75 (This quotation is taken from the third edition because, although the work was first published in 1674, this extract first appeared in that later edition; meanwhile, the specific page reference and link refer to an 1815 republication.)",
"text": "The apostle tells us, 1 Cor. 1. 23. that “Christ crucified was to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Gentiles foolishness.” The grand Sophies of the world esteemed it absurd and unreasonable to believe, that he who was exposed to sufferings, could save others: but those who are called, discover that the doctrine of salvation, by the cross of Christ, which the world counted folly, ver. 24. is the great “wisdom of God,” and most convenient for his end."
}
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"A wise man; a sage or wite."
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"(obsolete) A wise man; a sage or wite."
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"ref": "1598: John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie, Three Books of Satyres, volume 2, chapter 5, page 194 (1966 republication)",
"text": "Hange thy selfe Drusus, hast nor arms nor brain?\nSome Sophy say, The Gods sell all for paine."
}
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"etymology_text": "From the common termination of the class of words denoted (e.g., philosophy, theosophy, etc.); compare the earlier ology and ism, and the later logy and osophy.",
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"ref": "ante''' 1843: Robert Southey, Common-place Book, volume 4, page 578 (1851 publication)",
"text": "The various sophy’s — cosmosophy, kerdosophy."
},
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"ref": "1869, Contemporary Review, volume 11, page 456:",
"text": "Francis Moyen was, as here described, an interesting character in his way; a sparkling, talented, thoughtless Parisian, full of adventure and, with his beloved violin in his baggage, ever on the wing. Voltaire and Boileau were winning the world in those days. Moyen, like every young man of the period, had read them, could quote them, and would sometimes utter himself in their particular sophy; half scoffing, and half religious, and half philosophical by turns, a thorough Frenchman, carelessly throwing off his first thoughts whatever they were and whoever was near.",
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