"Dialectician" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... must furnish the most abhorrent examples is not the fault of the gifts and blessings, but of those to whom they are intrusted. God is a dialectician and judges the person by the thing,[1] meting out destruction to the thing or gift as well as to ...
— Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II - Luther on Sin and the Flood • Martin Luther
... absolute surrender to the Divine love—he came into conflict with Bossuet, and after a fierce war of diplomacy and of pamphlets, in which Fenelon displayed the utmost skill and energy as tactician and dialectician, he received a temperate condemnation from Rome, and submitted. The death of the Dauphin (1711), which left his former pupil heir to the throne, revived Fenelon's hopes of political influence, but in the next year these hopes disappeared with ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden |
