I cannot refrain from complimenting Mr. Payne upon the admirable way in which he has attacked and mastered all the difficulties of its abstruser passages. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So that nothing can be more superficial than this paradox of the sceptics; and it were well, if, in the abstruser studies of logic and metaphysics, we could as easily obviate the cavils of that sect, as in the practical and more intelligible sciences of politics and morals. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The setting of a trap for finding out whether it was accidentally done, soon superseded, as a practical piece of cunning, the abstruser inquiry why otherwise it was done. ❋ Unknown (2004)
If the mind, with greater facility, retains the ideas of geometry clear and determinate, it must carry on a much longer and more intricate chain of reasoning, and compare ideas much wider of each other, in order to reach the abstruser truths of that science. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Wherefore this wanderer to this end spake much of these things, that convicted by those who had truly learned them, it might be manifest what understanding he had in the other abstruser things. ❋ Unknown (1999)
As this abstruser mode of symbolism, if less peculiar to the masonic system, is, however, far more interesting than the one which was treated in the previous essay, -- because it is more philosophical, -- I propose to give an extended investigation of its character. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
Many who read the abstruser parts of his 'Friend' would complain that his works did not answer to his spoken wisdom. ❋ Various (N/A)
Let us now proceed to a brief consideration of the method in which this alphabet of the science is applied to the more elevated and abstruser portions of the system, and which, as the temple constitutes its most important type, I have chosen to call the "Temple Symbolism of Masonry." ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
And, in the first place, there is what may be called an elementary view of this abstruser symbolism, which seems almost to be a corollary from what has already been described in the preceding article. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
The dead languages, and the abstruser sciences, as they have ever been, so they will probably ever continue to be, cultivated by the few instead of the many; and for their accommodation, numerous private institutions of more or less merit, are already provided. ❋ Charles Lee (1908)
I have brought you up carefully, instructing you in all polite learning, and even in some of the abstruser sciences. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Perhaps among those who in these little books catch their first glimpse of its teachings, there may be a few who will be led by them to penetrate more deeply into its philosophy, its science and its religion, facing its abstruser problems with the student's zeal and the neophyte's ardour. ❋ Unknown (1890)
Perhaps among those who in these little books catch their first glimpse of its teachings, there may be a few who will be led by them to penetrate more deeply into its philosophy, its science, and its religion, facing its abstruser problems with the student's zeal and the neophyte's ardour. ❋ Annie Wood Besant (1890)
In the presence of so much fluctuating teaching upon the abstruser points of the creeds was it not desirable to abandon the pretence of a rounded system complete in every detail? ❋ W.G. Tarrant (1890)
What puzzled him more was the abstruser question, where on earth the stranger could have come from so suddenly. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
Many who read the abstruser parts of his “Friend” would complain that his works did not answer to his spoken wisdom. ❋ Cornwall, Barry (1866)
Brother Bacon, though a modest and most kindly man, used to think he had a monopoly of the abstruser knowledge in regard to real property and real actions. ❋ George Frisbie Hoar (1865)
He took especial delight in pursuing the abstruser branches of learning, and found in them his chief pleasure and recreation. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)
