In his Paradossi (1542), the first vernacular collection of paradoxes in Europe, Ortensio Lando argued for various disagreeable and officially low con - ditions, such as imprisonment, exile, debt, cuckoldry, and bastardy; all these are made to seem, however the paradoxist must reach for his instances, in some context or other preferable to their dialectical opposites: ❋ ROSALIE L. COLIE (1968)
Maximus was a paradoxist and it is doubtful that his conclusions were to be taken seri - ously. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)
For the paradoxist any - way, ignorantia had to be docta to count: for that reason, the literary paradox can claim its place in an encyclopedia of philosophy. ❋ ROSALIE L. COLIE (1968)
The tightrope-walking paradoxist took as his task, quite literally, equivocation, as part of his loyalty to indeter - minacy and to inclusiveness. ❋ ROSALIE L. COLIE (1968)
The professional paradoxist went about with holes in his boots. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)
Tyndall has well remarked -- and the paradoxist should lay the lesson well to heart -- 'Newton's action in this matter was the normal action of the scientific mind. ❋ Unknown (1862)
A half-understood explanation, or a carelessly worded account of some natural phenomenon, leads the paradoxist, whose nature is compounded of conceit and simplicity, to originate a theory of his own on the subject. ❋ Unknown (1862)
This was a noble achievement on the part of our paradoxist. ❋ Unknown (1862)
In my correspondence with Mr. Reddie I recognised the real source of the amazing self-complacency displayed by the true paradoxist. ❋ Unknown (1862)
The latest paradoxist, misled by the incorrect term 'centrifugal force,' proposes to 'modify, if not banish,' the old-fashioned astronomy. ❋ Unknown (1862)
The paradoxist was abashed, the reader perhaps imagines. ❋ Unknown (1862)
Continually we hear of some new paradoxist who propounds as a novel doctrine the teaching that the atmosphere, and not the sun, is the cause of heat. ❋ Unknown (1862)
A paradoxist in America (of Louisville, Kentucky) who had invented a theory of the weather, in which the planets, by their influence on the sun, were supposed to produce all weather-changes, the nearer planets being the most effective, found his theory wanted Vulcan very much. ❋ Unknown (1862)
It would be unfair, perhaps, to say that the paradoxist consciously argues thus. ❋ Unknown (1862)
This correspondence served to throw quite a new light on the mental habitudes and ways of thinking of the honest paradoxist. ❋ Unknown (1862)
It has often seemed to me that a large part of the mischief -- for let it be remembered that the published errors of the paradoxist are indicative of much unpublished misapprehension -- arises from the undeserved contempt with which our books of astronomy too often treat the labours of ❋ Unknown (1862)
Because the paradoxist is ready to pronounce an opinion about matters he has not studied, it does not seem strange to him that Newton and his followers should be equally ready to discuss subjects they had not inquired into. ❋ Unknown (1862)
In the present instance, the correspondence showed that the paradoxist supposed the parabolic paths of some comets to be regarded by astronomers as analogous to the parabolic paths traversed by projectiles. ❋ Unknown (1862)
It may have been that a clear reasoner like De Morgan could hardly (despite his wide experience) appreciate the confusion of mind which is the normal characteristic of the paradoxist. ❋ Unknown (1862)
[53] Sterne anticipated this paradoxist in (jestingly) attributing glassiness to an inferior planet. ❋ Unknown (1862)
