François Rabelais

Name: Pantagruel — ~ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge
Author: François Rabelais

Pantagruel — ~ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel… (1532)

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“Pantagruel — ~ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge”, published in 1532, is a work by François Rabelais. It explores elements such as Pantagruel, Panurge and Thaumast.

Quotes from Pantagruel — ~ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel… (François Rabelais)

François Rabelais, Pantagruel — ~ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel… (1532)

“ Now to-morrow I will not fail to meet thee at the place and hour that thou hast appointed, but let me entreat thee that there be not any strife or uproar between us, and that we seek not the honour and applause of men, but the truth only. To which Thaumast answered: The Lord God maintain you in his favour and grace, and, instead of my thankfulness to you, pour down his blessings upon you, for that your highness and magnificent greatness hath not disdained to descend to the grant of the request of my poor baseness. So farewell till to-morrow! Farewell, said Pantagruel. ”

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François Rabelais, Pantagruel — ~ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel… (1532)

“ Is any man so learned as the devils are? No, indeed, said Pantagruel, without God's especial grace. Yet for all that, said Panurge, I have argued against them, gravelled and blanked them in disputation, and laid them so squat upon their tails that I have made them look like monkeys. Therefore be assured that to-morrow I will make this vain-glorious Englishman to skite vinegar before all the world. So Panurge spent the night with tippling amongst the pages, and played away all the points of his breeches at primus secundus and at peck point, in French called La Vergette. ”

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François Rabelais, Pantagruel — ~ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel… (1532)

“ When he had spoken these words, Pantagruel very honourably said unto him: Sir, of the graces that God hath bestowed upon me, I would not deny to communicate unto any man to my power. For whatever comes from him is good, and his pleasure is that it should be increased when we come amongst men worthy and fit to receive this celestial manna of honest literature. ”

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François Rabelais, Pantagruel — ~ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel… (1532)

“ I dare not reckon myself in the number of those so excellent persons, but well would be called studious, and a lover, not only of learning, but of learned men also. And indeed, having heard the report of your so inestimable knowledge, I have left my country, my friends, my kindred, and my house, and am come thus far, valuing at nothing the length of the way, the tediousness of the sea, nor strangeness of the land, and that only to see you and to confer with you about some passages in philosophy, of geomancy, and of the cabalistic art, whereof I am doubtful and cannot satisfy my mind ”

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François Rabelais, Pantagruel — ~ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel… (1532)

“ I will not argue pro et contra, as do the sottish sophisters of this town and other places. Likewise I will not dispute after the manner of the Academics by declamation; nor yet by numbers, as Pythagoras was wont to do, and as Picus de la Mirandula did of late at Rome. But I will dispute by signs only without speaking, for the matters are so abstruse, hard, and arduous, that words proceeding from the mouth of man will never be sufficient for unfolding of them to my liking. ”

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François Rabelais, Pantagruel — ~ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel… (1532)

“ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge In that same time a certain learned man named Thaumast, hearing the fame and renown of Pantagruel's incomparable knowledge, came out of his own country of England with an intent only to see him, to try thereby and prove whether his knowledge in effect was so great as it was reported to be. ”

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François Rabelais, Pantagruel — ~ How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel… (1532)

“ Which we may the rather believe that the very bare report thereof, scattered in the air, if it happen to be received into the ears of men, who, for being studious and lovers of virtuous things are called philosophers, doth not suffer them to sleep nor rest in quiet, but so pricketh them up and sets them on fire to run unto the place where the person is, in whom the said knowledge is said to have built her temple and uttered her oracles. ”

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