Angelic Doctor
Britishnoun
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St. Thomas, the Angelic Doctor and patient builder of a great intellectual system, meets John Dewey, pragmatist and patient destroyer of systems.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was 49, and the author of more than 40 thick volumes of philosophy and theology so harmonious to Catholic teaching that he became known as "the Angelic Doctor."
From Time Magazine Archive
Maritain is largely responsible for the upsurge of interest in the philosophic system of the 13th Century's "Angelic Doctor."
From Time Magazine Archive
And, though the undergraduates in the gallery roared "Mouth, sir; mouth!" till they were hoarse, the Angelic Doctor never perceived the unmeaningness of his proverb.
From Collections and Recollections by Russell, George William Erskine
Doubled the splendor is, that in its streets The Angelic Doctor as a school-boy played, And dreamed perhaps the dreams, that he repeats In ponderous folios for scholastics made.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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