Rich. Flecknoe's ænigmatical characters being rather a new work, than new impression of the old.

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Rich. Flecknoe's ænigmatical characters being rather a new work, than new impression of the old.
Author
Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
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London :: Printed by R. Wood, for the author,
1665.
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"Rich. Flecknoe's ænigmatical characters being rather a new work, than new impression of the old." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39707.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.

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Character 4. Of an Eager Disputant.

HE has Scollarship enough (like an igno∣rant Conjurer) to raise Doubts, but not to lay them; and comes from breaking Priscians head to breaking your. He thinks 'tis brave to have his speech (like Dametus Armor) com∣pos'd of several pieces of Greek and Latine, when indeed 'tis onely cloathing Eloquence in Motley. He seeks Contention more then Truth, and you cannot do him a greater dis∣pleasure then to be of his opinion. He has

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too much Passion to have any Reason for what he sayes, and heats and grows red hot present∣ly, with thunder in his voice and lightning in his eyes: impatient of contradiction, and con∣tradicting every one; so as Faith that remove mountains, can never remove him from his opinion. From question of things he comes to question of names, and from thence to mis∣naming them, so as by degrees at last he quite loses himself, and the state of the question too. And such as these they are who have so rent the Church with their hot Disputations, and made the breach so wide, as that which at first like North and South, was onely divided by an individual Line, becomes at last the whole Heavens distant, by their indiscreet go∣ing to the extremity of either Pole.

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