The schoolman had recourse to first principles, when there was no opium to try it by: our man settles the point in the same way with a lump of opium before him.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)"
Augustus de Morgan
The duty of the schoolman was to explain church doctrine; these explanations were characterized by fine distinctions and by an absence of real content.
"Autobiography and Selected Essays"
Thomas Henry Huxley
He urges his proofs with the acuteness of a skilful schoolman, but throughout he shows a deep inner religious feeling.
"A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)"
Leopold von Ranke