| 单词 | reasoner |
| 例句 | We claim that reasoning did not evolve to allow the lone reasoner to find the truth. ArtsBeat: Researcher Responds to Arguments Over His Theory of Arguing 2011-06-15T14:49:49Z If the reasons are not adequate support for the conclusion, then the reasoner commits an informal fallacy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In intending to deceive, one treats one’s audience as reasoners whom one must persuade. How 9/11 Ushered in a New Era of Conspiracy Theories 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The motivated reasoner begins with a conclusion to which he or she is committed, and assesses evidence or expertise according to whether it supports that conclusion. Faith and politics mix to drive evangelical Christians’ climate change denial 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Dennett loves to organize his ideas with alliterative slogans: design without designers, competence without comprehension, and reasons without reasoners are among his favorites. Opinion | How come we have a mind? And how can we even ask or answer this question? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z He was a rigorous reasoner with a sure command of legal subtleties and constitutional principles and a knack for connecting them to the lives of ordinary people and the messy realities of politics and government. Mario Cuomo: A Miscarriage of Justice 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z In such cases, the reasoner uses induction properly by using relevant evidence, but her evidence is simply too weak to support the generalization she makes. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z To raise the requisite standard of proof, to inculcate hardness and slowness of belief, is the first task of the inductive reasoner. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The tenant-farmers are uproarious in their opposition to it; and, with a headstrong determination which cannot be too strongly condemned, refuse to listen to the voice of the reasoner. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z Reason plays a less conspicuous part in good society because its frequenters are too reasonable to be mere reasoners. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z He was what is understood by a matter-of-fact reasoner. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z Notice that this reasoner has gone through a series of instances to make an inference about one additional instance. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Mackenzie, a trenchant writer and an excellent reasoner. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z When he took his degree, he was esteemed the first reasoner and philosophical critic in the University. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The working people are reasoners—their hands and heads are in partnership. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z The little reasoner had vanquished me and I fled the field.” The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife 2012-02-05T03:00:11.420Z In doing so, the reasoner implicitly assumed a generalization along the way. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z I am a wretched reasoner at best.—I am therefore at a loss to unravel this mystery. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z Such reasoners also held that the labourers were not to seek for the fund "about the country on an uncertainty;" but that the work for the labourers "should be at hand"—"it should be certain." Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z He led them from about 1850 to 1860, when he died; and he was intellectually far superior to Disraeli—I should say, the greatest reasoner that has ever served the Conservative cause. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z I reply to all such reasoners, that their doubts and questionings are most unreasonable. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z The reasoner’s implicit generalization is that no cat likes its tail being pulled. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z A Secularist is intended to be a reasoner, that is as Coleridge defined him, one who inquires what a thing is, and not only what it is, but why it is what it is. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z The same class of false reasoners who consider that the wants of society are limited, cry out, it is better to have a population of men than of steam-engines. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z They closed the mouths of reasoners by citing the language of Paul, who had said "that the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men." Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul 2011-11-24T03:00:45.230Z He was a metaphysician, as you assert; you are surely right; he was a sincere, earnest reasoner and teacher. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z A reasoner can use several instances in their experience as premises to draw a general conclusion and then use that generalization as a premise to draw a conclusion about a specific new instance. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z He was a close reasoner as well as a warm feeler, and would not allow his sympathies to get the upper hand of his ideas. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z With the excited he was all fire and flame; with the cool reasoners he was calm and logical; with the prudent and timorous he was full of discretion and consideration. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z The candor of the discussion is remarkable; the book is the argument of a perfectly fair reasoner, painting nothing in too dark colors, but taking his opponents at their best. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z In argument he was a close reasoner, and would be either a doughty opponent or a warm advocate; the middle line never attracted. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z The reasoner uses relevant premises, but the evidence contained therein is weak or defective in some way. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The reasoner cast it into the furnace, which his own negligence had heated "seven times hotter than its wont"—but it came out without the smell of fire. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour 2011-09-03T02:00:17.117Z You, a powerful reasoner, will surely relieve me of the necessity for proving that the Infinite must be everywhere the same, and that it is inevitably one? The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z This is the only reply which even so powerful a reasoner as Dr. Newman can give to an objection based on distinct statements of Scripture itself. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z An atheistic reasoner suddenly startles us by becoming a devout Christian; the apparent enemy of the faithful is "transformed into an angel of light." My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z The gambler, like the reasoner from sunk costs, is tied to the past when they should be reasoning about the present and future. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z He was a close thinker and reasoner, but never anchored outside the clear, deep waters of the Bible. The Story of the Toys 2011-08-05T02:00:49.720Z He was a reasoner, I am a system! The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Much learned investigation, from acute observers, and profound reasoners, had been expended upon them, without arriving at any satisfactory result. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z In the great world of opinion it is the duty of honest reasoners to endeavour to find out the truth, and take sides, undeterred by the philosophical frivolity now growing fashionable. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z I do not mean to suggest that you belong to that class—only that you have condescended to use an argument peculiar to uncultivated reasoners. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z I realize, as do all intelligent reasoners withholding myself to be the humblest among you, that character is something that is not acquired while we sleep. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z In all history, in all countries, in all faiths there have been the thinkers, the reasoners, the "lovers of wisdom," and they have rejected the religion of their people. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z The average superficial reasoner is in the constant habit of setting down as insincere such learned persons as make a profession of faith in the dogmas of Christianity. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Induction pursues the reasoner with an eternal why. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z One would have supposed that Dr. Hort's mathematical training would have made him an exact reasoner. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z This, no doubt, was very good reasoning—would have been had the reasoner but numbered a dozen or so more years of life. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z A French writer, M. Leon de Montbeillard, has just published a work on Spinoza, calling in question the logical powers of that "thorny" reasoner on inscrutable problems. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The pertinence of his deductions was so obvious to the impartial reasoner as to excite his surprise, that the great body of good and sensible men and women did not adopt and practise them. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Whatever he asserts, the honest reasoner should be prompt to prove. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Being studious and industrious, he accomplished much without scholastic training, and became well versed in the sciences, and an acute reasoner. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z I have tried to convince these crosseyed reasoners that all force is one force and all matter is one matter, and the scientists are now coming to that conclusion steadily. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z We are confined to the same very narrow premises on which previous reasoners stood, but we find different import of the same facts from any which prior expounders disclosed. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z She was the dupe of every powerful reasoner, and assumed with equal facility the most opposite shapes. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Her reasonings might be fallacious or valid, but they were composed, arranged, and delivered, were drawn from such sources, and accompanied with such illustrations, as plainly testified a manlike energy in the reasoner. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z Mr. Wilkinson is an eloquent and forcible speaker, and a man of unusual ability, a sound and logical reasoner, and withal fluent. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Intrepid reasoner, placed in the alternative of killing this sick old man, or of letting your wife and children die of hunger, in all honesty of conscience you ought to kill him. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Even the Italians have kept a profound silence with regard to it, though it has now engaged the chief attention, as well of ministers of state, as of speculative reasoners. Essays 2011-05-19T02:00:06.077Z In his old age we hear that he would at times try the ironic method upon objectionable reasoners; not, we should imagine, with much dexterity or subtlety. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Saturn influences in this sign are very hard to overcome, as it governs the reflective faculties and produces close reasoners, and persons born under its rays usually have a steady, hard pull to gain success. Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration 2011-05-02T02:00:20.220Z In the next place, he was a good reasoner, and I want to emphasize this point. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z There never was a more honest reasoner than Edwards. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Yet this really profound thinker and acute reasoner played an important part in helping to discredit that negative dogmatism which was so much in vogue during his own lifetime. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z You the orthodox, and you the reasoners, assert through the mouths of your churches or philosophies that purely human virtues are actually predicable of Christ, and appeal for evidence to his life and death. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z As an orator he was less polished, less epigrammatic than Grattan; but a closer reasoner and a greater master of sarcasm and invective. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The judge who should condemn a man for killing his assassin, would be alike iniquitous, and a bad reasoner. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z Indeed, these reasoners seem to have expected to see one truth, by shutting their eyes upon another! An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z He is a good reasoner, too, you see that, Miss Darrell; though by moonlight his logic shines but dimly. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z I am far from asserting, with some reasoners, that private ills form the general good. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Imagine the horror of this anti-matrimonial reasoner if it were proposed that he should give half his victuals for not cooking at all, or doing anything except keeping up appearances. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z It is very certain these doctors, whatever they may say or do, will not cure him, if the malady is inherent in his nature; besides, these reasoners are often very ailing themselves. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z Is he not a great reasoner, rather than a great thinker? An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z It was in vain I urged to these reasoners that for hundreds, and, perhaps, thousands of years, creatures little better than Calibans infested the morasses and forests of Europe. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Euripides was both a reasoner and a poet. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z What Johnson claims for him, and what seems to have been claimed for him in his own lifetime, was the credit of being one of the best reasoners in verse that ever wrote. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z It appears to me that the fallacious reasoner, in his private thoughts, would not be likely to proceed beyond the first step. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II 2011-03-01T03:00:40.557Z Channing occupies the critic longer, but is found to be an unsatisfactory and too general reasoner. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z To him there are sacred things in the fireside life and at the altar that are not to be laid bare by the curiosity of the reasoner in his search for truth. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z They are wretched reasoners, generally losing sight of their own true interest, and grasping at that which is unreal and visionary. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z Like Leonardo, but with much less than Leonardo’s genius for scientific speculation and divination, D�rer was a confirmed reasoner and theorist on the laws of nature and natural appearances. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z All reasoning in political or social affairs, grounded on principles of human nature, is objected to by reasoners of this sort, under such names as "abstract theory." A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II 2011-03-01T03:00:40.557Z He did not assume to himself the wonted formalities of a great doctor, or of an acute reasoner and disputer. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z But whatever difficulties reasoners may find in the philosophy, there is no question that the practice of the Utilitarians was of immense value to society. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Apparently, not the ministers of the hundreds of different Protestant sects that flourish in America; not Mr. Gladstone, student of the Bible and profound reasoner though he be. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z It was useless to argue so abstruse a point with so interested and impassioned a reasoner. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 Few there are, as I said above, who are good reasoners on all subject-matters. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Well, he had brilliant gifts, was a fine speaker, a close reasoner, and every one believed that if he would give up his vice, he might become a great man. The Man Who Rose Again The believers in special creations are not the only reasoners who have made free use of hypothetical possibilities. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer It is fashionable, with many reasoners, to treat all history as a fable, and to set up for themselves in matters of policy, in defiance of the testimony of antiquity. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion The devil can quote Scripture and it is a very poor reasoner who cannot find a reason for anything that he wishes to do. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude This clear-headed and almost mathematical reasoner postulates, for his proof of its miracles, only thus much, that, under the circumstances of the case, a revelation is not improbable. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent The most celebrated subjects of discussion, and those on which this class of reasoners were most divided, were the reality of universal ideas, considered as extrinsic to the human mind and the freedom of will. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 If not primarily a reasoner, and too impatient perhaps for slow logical processes, he was also not a poet. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII If there are reasoners so feeble, they must be left to the punishment inflicted by Mr. Müller. Custom and Myth New Edition I have come to visit you, not as a suitor, but as a reasoner upon the merits of this case. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Foster, one of the greatest of our practical reasoners on religion, has been much indebted to Young, whom he resembled also in the sombre grandeur of his genius. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes He now appeared a shrewd, intelligent reasoner, a well-informed man of the world, and at times evidenced traits of reading and scholarship I was nowise prepared for. Jack Hinton The Guardsman Hughes was, like myself, a companion of Sir Charles Lyell in some of his journeys, though belonging to a younger generation of geologists, and is an accurate observer and reasoner. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Poets have been challenged to resign the civic crown to reasoners and merchants.... Ideas of Good and Evil The country was overrun with reasoners, debaters, metaphysicians, scientists and mechanical artists, but there were no poets. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar A man may be a very good reasoner who has not learned "to name his tools," which is all that is taught by the logic of Aristotle. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 And as for the logical tourney between egoism and altruism, has it not been in full view from the time of the Reverend Malthus up to that empty, prolix and tiresome reasoner, the indispensable Spencer? Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History On all such points the coward, judged by the standard of what passes muster as logic, is a better reasoner than the hero. Religious Perplexities His love of "peaceful settlement" arose from an experiment he had made in that way during the Empire, though it is very doubtful whether strictly logical reasoners would have looked upon it as "peaceful." An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections There is, it is true, one method of getting a kind of body to this abstract State, but it is a method which may well frighten the hardiest American reasoner. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Why, then, miserable reasoner, did you make so much noise about your proofs? Priests, Women, and Families Elijah was not a close reasoner and he failed to understand that Winston's principles were a kind of moral straight-edge which he applied impartially. The Vision of Elijah Berl His powers as a reasoner are enriched, his survey of the facts more comprehensive, his insight into their significance more penetrating. Religious Perplexities They were, with all their hot blood, and all the glow of their youth, serious thinkers and calm reasoners. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life It is, we know, contended by some reasoners on the subject, that the Rebel States could not do what they palpably did. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 ‘The truth is,’ he says in his final paragraph, ‘an inexperienced reasoner could be no reasoner at all, were he absolutely inexperienced.’ Rationalism He is something more than a great reasoner or acute divine. The London Pulpit I was not even then so illogical a reasoner as to allow a general and deny a particular Providence. Coelebs In Search of a Wife She was no reasoner about life in any big sense. The "Genius" Through the influence of the League, he obtained opportunities to speak in many considerable places; and he every-day increased his reputation as a vigorous reasoner and a pleasing speaker. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 His acuteness was great, and he had a scholastic subtlety and logical deftness which made him very formidable to the loose thinkers and reasoners of Utilitarianism and anti-Supernaturalism. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Such reasoners have strangely mistaken cause for effect. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 A skilful investigator and sound reasoner may be unreadable. Studies in Contemporary Biography The reasoner searches God without man and finds him not; the lover finds God within man in his heart, and hath no need of searching him. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy The reasoner is an explorer, and the culmination of his explorations is the perception of some fact previously unknown to him. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life As much might be made good against monarchy, and an unsympathising reasoner might in the same way argue that religion is intolerant, that conscience makes cowards, that piety rejoices in fraud. The History of Freedom For the rest, pleaders for Royalty are not rare: let us open them, and see what the most specious of royalist reasoners have said. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 They are, therefore, bolder reasoners than the English, less content to remain in the region of concrete facts, more prone to throw themselves into the construction of a body of speculative doctrine. Studies in Contemporary Biography As an instructive reasoner, too, he is perfectly great. Talkers With Illustrations The reasoner needs a clear head and a steady mental eye; he needs to look squarely and steadily at his two given statements in order to perceive their exact relationship. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Hegel remained, in his eyes, the strongest of all the enemies of religion, the guide of Tübingen in its aberrations, the reasoner whose abstract dialectics made a generation of clever men incapable of facing facts. The History of Freedom Miss Anthony is the same clear, calm reasoner—a woman of the same firm convictions and with the same forcible, dignified and essentially womanly manner of expressing them—that she has always been. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years In his early studies he had particularly applied himself to logic; and was not only a vigorous reasoner, but 248 one practised in all the finesse of dialectics. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Always ready to meet anybody in argument, he detested all reasoners who attempted to show the fallacy of his argument by pointing out the dangerous results to which it led. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 Some persons with abundant knowledge are ineffective reasoners from lack of a sense for probability. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life I have to speak of him not as a political reasoner or as an observer of life in motion, but only in the character which he assiduously lays aside. The History of Freedom To the timid reasoner that assumption of possibilities may seem startling. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science As a philosophical reasoner, casuist, and good counselor, he was "looked up to," and abided by. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes If these vulgar reasoners confound license with liberty, and mistake a spoiled child for a child who is made happy, let us teach them to distinguish the two. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts The successful reasoner not only seeks, but finds. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the51 affairs of a great nation, and it seems to me as absurd as if a butterfly were to teach bees to make honey. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches Thus Johnson and Burke discovered that reason, upon which justice depends, has less influence than a young reasoner is apt to fancy. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Perhaps as a seer Dr. Bushnell may be more certain of recognition than as a reasoner. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 I have seen reasoners, free-thinkers, philosophers, soldiers, who were utterly fearless in broad daylight, tremble like women at the rustle of leaves by night. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts Finally, in asking what are the qualifications of a good reasoner we can help ourselves once more by reference to the syllogistic map. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life That is the reason why he is an Englishman, a Whig, a bit of a Philistine, an orthodox Christian, and a very indifferent reasoner. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Some modern reasoners would explain its significance by reference to a very different kind of pre-existence. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Were the advantages procured by navigation as inexhaustible, these reasoners had never had any adversaries to refute; nor had any claims ever been advanced of a separate, exclusive dominion over the ocean.... Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." According to this method the most exact reasoner, if not naturally inventive, must be at fault. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts Some women are better reasoners than some men, while some men are more spiritual than some women. Elementary Theosophy He was a reasoner and a doctrinaire; and yet he must have had in himself those untamed volcanic emotions which we associate with the heroes of the romantic novels of the age. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle And, finally, if a persistent reasoner should ask why—even admitting the facts—the higher type should be preferred to the lower, Wordsworth may ask, Why is bodily health preferable to disease? Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Zeno was a subtle reasoner, and exceedingly popular. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." So if some astute reasoner of the future comes across such allusion in any writings, it will be clear proof that the author was post-Victorian! Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes We speak of men as being reasoners and of women as being intuitional and depending upon their impressions. Elementary Theosophy Nevertheless, a brief examination of the experiences on which he and his principal associate rely, may suggest some doubt as to which of the two specified classes of reasoners it is that they themselves belong. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications He sees intuitively what the reasoner evolves by argument. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) But the only view which reasoners like the Marquess have ever taken on the subject is, the force of numbers—"The Roman Catholics are three times as numerous as the Protestants." Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 "Yes," says another pertinacious reasoner, "but it unfits woman for much of the world's work." The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Therefore Freedom, in its highest sense, according to him and several other accomplished reasoners, is the aim of morality, and is that which gives it worth. An Ethnologist's View of History An Address Before the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Historical Society, at Trenton, New Jersey, January 28, 1896 The fact of a religion made up of tenets like these having been thought out by one of the profoundest of reasoners does not prevent its being the very perfection of unreason. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications Only two writers of former times have, as far as I know, observed this general defect of political reasoners; but these two are the greatest philosophers who have ever appeared in the world. A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations He had not much respect for Pope's philosophy, and, commenting on one passage in the same poem, writes: "Pope, like many other unsound reasoners, when his position becomes dangerous, seeks to vindicate himself by insults." War Letters of a Public-School Boy Cold-blooded reasoners, such as thee, would blast All warm affection; asunder sever Every social tie of humanized man. André A friend more opposite to error than charity is a very troublesome reasoner; and if he meddles with their chimeras they will endeavour to do him a diskindness.” Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness Eyllen was a sensible girl and a good reasoner, but her knowledge of minerals was exceedingly limited. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska This, however, is a long way from the facts of real life, and a man might well be a great geometer, and still be a thoroughly bad reasoner in practical questions. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 1: On Popular Culture In all such examples, these reasoners overlook the essential distinction between the finite and the infinite. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors A good judge of character, a student of men and manners, a natural reasoner along sociologic and psychologic lines, she saw through them and through the civilization which they represented. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel Now I am quite willing to admit that Manning was a most amiable and well-meaning person; but I am unable to consider him seriously as a reasoner. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice A judge, to take the typical case, is perfectly just when he ascertains the facts by logical inferences from the evidence, and then applies the law in the spirit of a scientific reasoner. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies The most —— reasoner may be deluded, when he practises sophistry upon himself. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Hence the many eminent observers who have been the most illogical of reasoners. The History of Dartmouth College I have so often seen him change his plans so wisely and meet emergencies so promptly and well that I can think of him only as a reasoner. Wild Life on the Rockies The explanations and distortions of such false reasoners are not needed here. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost What such reasoners do not appear to have appreciated was, the immense complexity and difficulty of the demand which they were making. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies "Your reasons, my little reasoner?" asked Mr. Lindsay. The Wide, Wide World These reasoners proceed, it will at once be admitted, not on the rights of man, but on the claims of humanity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Dr. Buchanan has earned a high and well-deserved reputation as a classical writer and close logical reasoner. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed A publicist, a fanatical but sincere reasoner, M. Madrolle, dedicated to M. de Polignac a memorial, in which he maintained the necessity of remodelling the law of elections by a royal decree. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 It is perfectly true, moreover, as our antagonists will hasten to observe, that professedly scientific reasoners are hardly better agreed than their opponents. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies His established reputation as an accurate reasoner, and a forcible writer, guarantees the excellence of this work. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Alexis, however, was a better reasoner; and soon discovered the why and the wherefore of these mysterious demonstrations. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Nothing, then, being in the reasoner's mind but the symbols, what can seem more inadmissible than to contend that the reasoning process has to do with any thing more? A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Reid was a vigorous reasoner, and credit has been given to him by some disciples of Kant's doctrine of time and space. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Thirdly, that the element of chance, which every wise and prudent reasoner will very largely admit into all military affairs, worked in favour of the Revolution in the critical moments of the early wars. Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work But he perpetually errs by being too deep or too shallow for the matter in hand; and many a schoolboy is a better reasoner than he. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories We must be artists as well as meticulous classifiers, cataloguers, and reasoners. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty All reasoning in political or social affairs, grounded on principles of human nature, is objected to by reasoners of this sort, under such names as “abstract theory.” A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Some think these people might have been Phenicians, Carthagenians, Hebrews, or Egyptians; while another class of reasoners suppose them to have been Hindoos, Chinese, Tartars, Malays, or others. History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians The reader, who would follow a close reasoner to the summit of the absolute principle of any one important subject, has chosen a chamois-hunter for his guide. Pearls of Thought It has been well remarked by Whewell that for many ages 'mysticism in its various forms was a leading character both of the common mind and the speculations of the most intelligent and profound reasoners.' Myths and Marvels of Astronomy "It must surely be for the sake of contrast that I and yon paltry soul should come here at the same moment," said the reasoner. The Sand-Hills of Jutland A scientific observer or reasoner, merely as such, is not an adviser for practice. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive A detective came, a man named Furneaux; a jolly clever chap, too, but a most disturbing reasoner. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley On this subject he had looked back and looked forward farther than most political reasoners. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 The latter were content with the superstructure which � priori reasoners had raised upon Aristotle, and were by no means desirous of the trouble of learning more. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History I now reply to a question I have been asked again and again since my last Budget appeared: Why do you take so much trouble to expose such a reasoner as Mr. Smith? A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II In reasonings on life, even more than on other things, a good reasoner will consider not only the force of the opposing arguments, but also the bias to which his own mind is subject. The Map of Life Conduct and Character It is not easy to lay down a law governing this postulate, which, indeed, may be scoffed at by the superficial reasoner, and the progression from cause to effect is often obscured by contradictory facts. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley “It is a poor compliment,” says Blair, “that one is an accurate reasoner, if he be not a persuasive speaker also.” Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching "Five feet nine inches," said the reasoner promptly, and then suddenly his mouth fell open but his voice ceased. Simon These poor reasoners seem to think that there could be no meaning, as against me, unless it should be propounded that "without doubt he shall perish everlastingly, especially A. De Morgan." A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II The guilty reasoner justifies taxation, fines, imprisonment and wars in the history of his own country. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 He was philosophical, a good reasoner, and possessed of unusual discrimination. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings Whether its success has been due mainly to the abstract reasoners like Copernicus and the philosophers, or to the practical experimenters like Galileo and Harvey, is perhaps scarcely a practical question. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 The cooler reasoner was entitled to remind them that they were living upon solid earth, not in dreamland. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill It is quite natural that under such circumstances such a scepticism should overpower young and sensitive reasoners. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 The sceptical reasoner of the present day would probably regard the test as insufficient. Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology Even the most unearthly reasoner among the gallows-downing unfortunates would hardly expect to frighten away an assassin who knew the pistol to be unloaded. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Who are you, deserting your Muse, that you should insult my Goddess with familiarity, and the manners of approach common to the reasoners in the marketplace. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies The many oscillations of trade and finance during the great struggle, the distress which had followed the peace, had bewildered hasty reasoners. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Dr. B., who was an acute and ingenious reasoner, defended slaveholding by a variety of arguments, to which Dr. H. as ably replied. Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? They shocked all conservative minds; all rulers and dignitaries; all men attached to systems; all syllogistic reasoners and dialectical theologians; all fashionable and worldly people; all sects and parties attached to creeds and forms. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Did he mean that Unitarians were only bad reasoners, and might be as good Christians as orthodox believers? Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert I think I rightly recognize in the Irishman now, as formerly, the curious, inquisitive observer, the acute reasoner, the subtle speculator. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin This had become incredible to any intelligent reasoner, and any Tory could prove that there was something good in the past. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The reasoner who assigns structure or organization as the antecedent of Life, who names the former a cause, and the latter its effect, he it is who pretends to account for life. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. I belong, above all, to those who do not consider the world an irrational chaos, and also to those who cannot concede that there can be reason without a reasoner. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and, at once, exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Mr Keith is a Scotsman, and such are commonly good reasoners and love a tilt; and ’tis but well in a young man to keep his wits in practice. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow He was a reasoner in those things that had nothing to do with his science. The Heart of Unaga He was a keen reasoner and an able speaker. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 All this such a reasoner might do, and all this M. Neufchateau has done. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 If christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject so 199calculated, in all points, whereon to display their abilities? The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II If this is what Paley means, his argument is indeed irrefragable; but if he does not intend this, his words are frivolous, as so clear and acute a reasoner must have perfectly well known. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin But no poet cares to write of them as physicians, reasoners, lecturers, or preachers. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Used to Indian wiles, he was a ready reasoner, and he perceived at once that there might be something sinister in the sound which had been heard. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I As he slept, the wind rose, the waves carried away the plank on which he was stretched out, and behold our youthful reasoner embarked on a voyage. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. "Go, proud reasoner, and call the worm thy sister!" Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin No unprejudiced reader can finish his book, Metapsychical Phenomena, without feeling that its author is a brave and fearless writer, as well as a cautious and sane reasoner. The Shadow World Into the woof of delusion which he continued to weave, for enwrapping his own judgment, such reasoner omitted wholly to cross the warp of combined result. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Calvin burnt Servetus!—Calvin burnt Servetus! is good proof with a certain class of reasoners, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not true—that divine sovereignty is anti-scriptural,—and christianity a cheat. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs He did not seem to be a deliberate thinker or reasoner, and often gave the impression that his decisions or opinions were off-hand and not the result of reflection. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Though not so quick or clever as Roy, Henry was a keen observer and close reasoner. The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol The unlearned are sometimes better reasoners than the learned, though, of course, they haven’t got so many tools to work with. Philosopher Jack I used to wonder sometimes why them reasoners jined the sarvice at all, but to be sure most of ’em had been pressed. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers He was a quick thinker and just reasoner. Charlie to the Rescue “Why, Betty, I had no idea you were such a reasoner!” said Tom, with a look of surprise. Twice Bought Analogy would lead so contemplative a reasoner to the conclusion that if many were inferior and in sight, others might be superior and out of sight. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection This is all by the way, however; Companies are not abstract reasoners. The Story of a Dark Plot or Tyranny on the Frontier In this section the phrase occurs, "their Majesties," but this is probably a mistake in printing, though a crotchety reasoner might find in it a doubt of the authenticity of the Act. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry It gives the solutions of the problems forced upon the reasoner by the practical conditions of his time. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The fault committed by reasoners on this subject is, to confound one thing with another—to account for the age being unpoetical—as it unquestionably is—by a supposed decay in the materials of poetry. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 A shrewd reasoner in one thing, a sound philosopher is another. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Spinoza will scarcely carry with him the reasoner of the nineteenth century in arguments like these. Short Studies on Great Subjects This kind of reasoning had little weight with the Chamber, but it made the reasoner very popular with the throng in the galleries. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre And the closest reasoners arrive at different conclusions and disagree as to many vital and important details. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo "If I live," wrote Rufus Choate in his diary in September, 1844, "all blockheads which are shaken at certain mental peculiarities shall know and feel a reasoner, a lawyer and a man of business." How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Weak reasoners that ye are, ye have essay'd To speak for God. Man of Uz, and Other Poems He saw how much the social fabric had been woven out of ancient tradition; and he made others see it more clearly than could be done by any abstract reasoner. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Many good judges—and I own I am inclined to agree with them—doubt much whether a study of formal logic ever yet made a good reasoner. Historical and Political Essays It is the opinion of many theoretical reasoners on the subject of government that, whatever may be its form, the ruling power of every nation is its property. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. Nor has this doctrine been confined to such metaphysical reasoners as Andrew Baxter. Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws It is said ... but, for fear of being accused of manufacturing Sophisms for the mouths of the protectionists, I will allow one of their most able reasoners to speak for himself. Sophisms of the Protectionists Without examining whether our duty is proportional to the perfection of its object, and is irrespective of our capacities, there is one vital objection to this doctrine, which Edwards had adopted from less coherent reasoners. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Worldly reasoners and great financiers, wiseacres and successful editors prophesied its failure, but what mattered this to George W. Childs? Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Could such reasoners but look upon the matter in its true perspective, they would cease to wonder that "good" should, in their view, "work out evil." Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) Why, you are indeed a most logical reasoner, and a most considerate Christian, when you launch out into an invective against the cruelty exhibited in our Cages. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Here we have a consistent reasoner! a logical arguer! Sophisms of the Protectionists Bolingbroke, like most feeble reasoners, believed firmly in Free Will; and though a theist after a fashion, his religion had not emotional depth or logical coherence enough to be pantheistic. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) To complain that Emerson is no systematic reasoner is to miss the secret of most of those who have given powerful impulses to the spiritual ethics of an age. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson He was a vigorous thinker, a close reasoner, and he displayed great knowledge of the Bible. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 But what sort of a reasoner is he who infers the identity of two whole complex theories from their coincidence in the use of only a single word? A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel His ability as a reasoner is best shown in his paper on the Kirkdale Bone Cave, which Penn had sought to interpret by reference to the Noachian Deluge. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective When I would search the truths that in me burn, And mould them into rule and argument, A hundred reasoners cried,—'Hast thou to learn Those dreams are scatter'd now, those fires are spent?' Apologia pro Vita Sua He was a clear reasoner, and not lacking on fit occasion in a stirring eloquence. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 First and last I have been brought into competition with many men of ability, and I have not often met a more able reasoner. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 Bernard Shaw, as I have already said, is infinitely far above all such mere mathematicians and pedantic reasoners; still his feeling is partly the same. George Bernard Shaw He was not even a strong reasoner as the term is generally used. Heart and Soul by Maveric Post Impartial reasoners will confess that this subject is not, on both sides, without its difficulties. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell Of course, he couldn't do this with able Judges, although all Judges who listened to him would, I think, agree that he was as persuasive a reasoner as ever lived. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 However irregular this practice, it will be regarded by political reasoners as one of the most early and most infallible symptoms of a regular, established liberty. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. The spirit of superstition was so prevalent, that it infallibly caught every careless reasoner, much more every one whose interest, and honor, and ambition were engaged to support it. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John Some cynical and shallow reasoners like to argue that such acts are only a disguised form of selfishness because, as we have a sympathetic share in the pleasure, we benefit by it, ourselves. Heart and Soul by Maveric Post Observe:—I give you this general statement doubtfully, and only as that towards which an impartial reasoner will, I think, be inclined by existing data. Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 Mr. Dawes was a very powerful and logical reasoner. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 And it is needless to say that experience shows, even among well-informed and accurate reasoners, how large an allowance must thus be made for personal equations. A Candid Examination of Theism Might not some reasoner of the more cheerful school urge in triumph just the contrary? Platform Monologues He was mostly known—so we of the North thought—as an impracticable reasoner. Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter They have been thinkers, reasoners, moralists, rather than observers and artists in color. A Text-Book of the History of Painting A reasoner, apart from mere slips, only involves himself in a contradiction when he is shying at a reductio ad absurdum. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Some reasoners quibble about everlasting and eternal; and the great Catholic logician "submits the whole subject to the theological school," a process which I do not quite understand, though I assume it to be consolatory. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists Wherefore it is requisite for prudence that man should be an apt reasoner. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province We may address to them the wise words uttered against similar speculators by one of the most logical of modern reasoners, the illustrious Cardinal Newman. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence They supposed that this profound and acute reasoner must be deeply skilled in the science of government. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States Weak, reckless reasoners! gravitation is neither wood, nor sand, nor metal, nor stone; movement, vegetation, life are not these things either, and yet life, vegetation, movement, gravitation, are given to matter. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary And so the defender of the Constitution, the greatest reasoner on political matters of the Republic, fell upon death. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict If we will fight only for money and aggrandizement, as the "Uncle Sham" style of reasoners hold, we should long ago have taken Mexico and Central America. My Second Year of the War There is not within us a little being, a reasoner, that sits and watches ideas file by and passes judgment upon them. The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners Thus the obvertend being—Some philosophers are consistent reasoners, the obverse will be—Some philosophers are not inconsistent reasoners. Logic Deductive and Inductive A judge who would condemn a man who has killed his assassin, because homicide is forbidden, would be as iniquitous as he was poor reasoner. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary These were questions that revolved themselves in the mind of the reasoner. Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton Be a man, he cries aloud, not an artist, not a reasoner, not any other kind or detail of humanity, but be a man. Among Famous Books But with the highest veneration for this p. 146great reasoner, the founder of modern philosophical logic, I think there is little of his usual strength of mind in this doubt. Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher But it must be admitted that the buffalo of the past was very often a most stupid reasoner. The Extermination of the American Bison All reasoners since Thales, and probably long before him, have played at blind man's buff with you; they have said: "I have you!" and they had nothing. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary What astute reasoner will solve, the intricacies of this problem? Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton They should not be skeptics, however, but close observers, original thinkers, and correct reasoners. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Every logical reasoner who admits the power of will must admit not only the possibility of miracles, but also the actual fact of their daily 243and hourly occurrence. Is Life Worth Living? I respect not such ill reasoners as would keep all wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. Oliver Cromwell Moreover, it did us the immense service of freeing us for ever from the dilemma—refuse to accept the creation hypothesis, and what have you to propose that can be accepted by any cautious reasoner? Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work Emerson was not a logician or reasoner, and not a rhetorician, in the common sense. Four American Leaders To the average reasoner who has no personal concern in the debate, it may seem immaterial at what date Mrs. Jenkyns paid her last visit to Boston. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) A Christian reasoner may well concede that he can form no conjecture in what variety of modes redeeming love might have been manifested. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century But the reviler in Milton is too far ahead of the reasoner. Life of John Milton He was neither a profound thinker nor a logical reasoner; and he certainly had not maturely studied the science of theology. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution And all of you who are great reasoners and arguers will laugh at this ridiculous little simile of life drawn by a woman; but I do not care. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story Astute reasoner! the dilemma is very just, and is very formidable; and upon the one or other of its horns, has been transfixed every adventurer that has hitherto gone forth on the knight-errantry of speculation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 If the word of God is relative, and relates itself with slaves, it incontestably follows that all human beings are slaves, and Deity is by such reasoners degraded into the character of universal slave-driver. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles This manner of speech is by the figure Dialogismus, or the right reasoner. The Arte of English Poesie "So much more exact reasoners, with regard to law, had they become from the jealous scruples of the House of Commons." Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Even the most unearthly reasoner among the anti-hanging unfortunates would hardly expect to frighten away an assassin who knew the pistol to be unloaded. A Cynic Looks at Life There, again, I touch another characteristic—his feeling for logic, for dialectic, whichPg 150 made him one of the severest reasoners that it would be possible to meet in argument. From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War "I am a bad reasoner, Mr. Woodward," she replied. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Owen, I do not doubt, will bitterly oppose us; but I regard that very little, as he is a poor reasoner and deeply considers the good opinion of the world, especially the aristocratic world. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 Many a great wit has thought the wit it was too late to speak, and many a great reasoner has only reasoned when his opponent has disappeared. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Newman was, above all things, a theologian; a subtle reasoner whose relentless logic led him at last to Rome. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century This was a "clincher," and even Shuffles had not wit enough to escape the conclusion of the dogmatic reasoner. Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat James was a verbose and ornate declaimer; Philip was a close, cogent reasoner, without any attempt at elegance or display. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest First, tell me, ye proud haughty reasoners, Where the vast strength this creature late possessed Has fled to? how the bright sparkling fire, Which flashed but now from those dim rayless eyes Has been extinguished? A Book for the Young Go, proud reasoner, and call the worm thy sister! Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Chateaubriand was not a close reasoner; his knowledge was superficial and inaccurate; his character was weakened by vanity and shallowness. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century If the word God is relative, and relate itself with slaves, it incontestably follows that all human beings are slaves, and Deity is by such reasoners degraded into the character of universal slave-driver. Superstition Unveiled But he was clear-headed, energetic, a good orator, a clever reasoner, an astute handler of men, courageous, versatile, full of recourse, and on the whole above the commission of any really glaring moral infraction. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Edinburgh Review: One of the acutest and most powerful of reasoners. Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity But are we mere reasoners in a circle? Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Pavement which is clean, a disaster a single disaster is not in shooting but in being a reasoner. Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories There are two analogous cases or precedents on which serious reasoners rely in support of a policy of Home Rule for Ireland. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 Moreover, it did the immense service of freeing us for ever from the dilemma—refuse to accept the creation hypothesis and what have you to propose that can be accepted by any cautious reasoner? Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch An elegant writer and a profound reasoner, he would doubtless have enlightened the world, if Providence had not abandoned him to people who sacrificed his talents to their own antipathies. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly; and we derive advantages from it which are very visible. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) But no candid critic can feel that these eminent men, and other less distinguished labourers in the same cause, have put forward arguments of strength enough to account for the undoubted conviction of the reasoners. England's Case Against Home Rule Again the struggle commenced, and once more Moses was the prey of the relentless reasoners—Love and Self. Lancashire Idylls (1898) It is in fact an abuse of terms unworthy of a scientific reasoner. Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever If there are reasoners so feeble, they must be left to the punishment inflicted by Mr. Müller. Custom and Myth A man is generally rendered somewhat a worse reasoner for having been a minister. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Bacon certainly was not a metaphysician, nor an exact and lucid reasoner. Bacon “I am, by the law of my nature, a reasoner,” said Coleridge, and he explained that he did not mean by this “an arguer.” The Art of Letters What is there more which hinders a series of finite causes to be carried back ad infinitum, than that the reasoner or contemplator of the course of nature is tired. Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever It is better, they say, to be reasonable than a reasoner; to be imaginative than a dreamer; and to have discernment or insight than mere knowledge. A Trip to Venus On the contrary they are very wide awake individuals; close observers; clear thinkers; correct reasoners. A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga In the part of the passage, verses 50 to 58, the Apostle becomes, not the witness or the reasoner, as in the earlier parts of the chapter, but the revealer of a ‘mystery.’ Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) But we find throughout, that, as Emerson said of another class of reasoners, "Their two is not the real two; their four is not the real four." Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays It is allowed by Priestley and all other reasoners, that the most capital argument that can be formed in support of any thesis is to be built upon experience, or analogy to experience. Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever But it is far better to hold with Jesus Christ than with such reasoners. Four Psalms XXIII. XXXVI. LII. CXXI. Interpreted for practical use Or if I looked abroad--" "Stop," I said, "I am not reasoner enough to persuade you that all women have souls. Mr. Isaacs The apostle Paul is a very keen and cogent reasoner. Sermons to the Natural Man Or else these reasoners have been so misled by twenty years' mismanagement, that they have forgot our constitution, and talk as if our monarchy and revolution began together. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Yet will many of these reasoners, Dr. Priestley at least for one, contend at the same time for the probability of a future life, when no instance can be given of any revival whatsoever. Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever He, the man of iron will, of ferocious temper, was at the same time the coolest reasoner, the most unbiased thinker. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Macaulay declared that Sydney Smith was "universally admitted to have been a great reasoner, and the greatest master of ridicule that has appeared among us since Swift." Sydney Smith But if these reasoners speak about the pure pleasures, they might take objection on similar grounds against virtue and justice also; for these too admit of degrees, and one man is more virtuous than another. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics To the forensic reasoner, to the practical master-worker in whatever sphere, such a power is essential not less than to the ideal artist or to the weaver of fictions. Essays Æsthetical The reader of this volume must not flinch from the ingenious dialectics of the mediæval reasoner on Man and Nature. The Banquet (Il Convito) An accomplished reasoner and a profound thinker, he lacked the invaluable quality of imagination. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History To call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation, seems to me as absurd as if a butterfly were to teach bees to make honey. Sydney Smith The marvelous power of the genius, the inventor, the reasoner in all fields, is merely an exhibition of the laws of association working with extremely subtle elements. How to Teach For us rationalists this is not of much importance; but the orthodox reasoner, compelled to be of opinion that his book is right in every particular, finds himself involved in endless subtleties. Recollections of My Youth He had neither the patience nor the method of the inductive reasoner; he passed from one thought to another not by logical steps but by airy flights, which left no footprints. Ralph Waldo Emerson There are no shallower reasoners than those political and commercial writers who would represent it to be the only true and gainful end of commerce, to accumulate the precious metals. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style For reasoners, here's a juggler's cup, That fullest seems when nothing's in it; And nine pins set, like systems, up, To be knock'd down the following minute. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 528, January 7, 1832 "A close reasoner and a good writer in general may be known by his pertinent use of connectives." Practical Exercises in English His eloquence was luxuriant and efflorescent, but he was also a close and compact reasoner. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 The scholars were cogent reasoners, and a show of staves soon brought their opponents to a nonplus. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 "They were bad reasoners," he added, "but great poets." The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style As early beasts had genius, so the earliest reasoners appear to have been as logically gifted as the lowest savages now known to us, or even as some Biblical critics. The Making of Religion I am no trained, reasoner, like Signor Grandi," said Lira, looking straight at Hedwig, "but I can say plainly what I mean, for all that. A Roman Singer And let some reasoners think what they please, 'tis certain that men must be brought to esteem and love the clergy, before they can be persuaded to be in love with religion. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 Well said, sir; an excellent reasoner while dreaming. Who Goes There? An ingenious and powerful, but paradoxical thinker, once told me that I was mistaken in calling Jonathan Edwards and Daniel Webster great reasoners. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style In any case, a scientific reasoner might be expected to ask: 'Is this alleged acquisition of knowledge, not through the ordinary channels of sense, a thing in rerum natura?' The Making of Religion Now I am not a strong man in action, but I am a very cunning reasoner. A Roman Singer If Christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject so calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities? The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 The reasoning and the reasoner were so irresistible that Max was easily satisfied. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy But it was at first puzzling to comprehend why Webster should be depressed as a reasoner in order to be exalted as a poet. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Now, ordinary dreams, in which the dreamer seemed to see persons who were really remote; would supply to the savage reasoner a certain amount of affirmative evidence. The Making of Religion Glad to purchase peace, I yielded; then the reasoner said I could put it away and not use it, but this language was spoken: 'I have shown thee what was required of thee.' The Grimké Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights Such oversights are committed by very good reasoners, and even by a still rarer class, that of good observers. Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy Great injustice is done to Hegel by treating him as primarily a reasoner. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy It is said that at Petersburg Diderot is considered a tiresome reasoner," wrote the King of Prussia to D' Alembert in January, 1774; "he is incessantly harping on the same things. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 We may not always think him fair, or a sound reasoner, but he is conciliatory, temperate, and often fearlessly candid. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 Any arrangement that might enable Hamilton to cross swords with an opponent on the floor of the House could not be attractive to Madison, who was a lucid reasoner but not an impressive speaker. Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism Suppose he had introduced himself as one of the strictest reasoners: do they form a body of men hitherto free from false conclusions and illusory speculations? George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy As it is, we seem to regard it as a positive objection to a reasoner that he has taken one side or the other. All Things Considered You will be a stupid reasoner, and an indifferent lover, if you don't put for the engine over those platform cars, as fast as your legs will carry you. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 We are small reasoners in the legal distinction of the world, and may mistake your rights in so novel a character. The Red Rover For, as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II But, perhaps, the greatest proof of his persuasive powers was, when he drew from Franklin's pocket the money which that clear, cool reasoner had determined not to give; it was for the orphan-house at Savannah. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 347, December 20, 1828 On the reasoners, of whom it was exclaimed, O how learned! n. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love This is the mightiest impulse to that exaltation of His person against which the calm and consummate reasoner contends in vain. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Their leaders are subtle reasoners, and it has been shrewdly observed of them that "they never shrink from following their logic to its consequences because the conclusion is immoral." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 The reasoner could adjust his systems only where his mind was free from the intrusion of outward objects. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Now, you are a good reasoner, and you have recently shown me that you have the necessary imagination; you merely lack experience in the use of your faculties. The Red Thumb Mark Such were the speeches of Pontiac and the eloquent Sagoyawata, or Red Jacket, the readiest reasoner of them all, which were diluted rather than improved by admiring paragraphists. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Mr. Godwin's theory and that of more approved reasoners differ only in this, that what are with them the exceptions, the extreme cases, he makes the every-day rule. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits One should show to such a reasoner all the parts of the house, and tell him for instance:—Do you see this great court-gate? The Existence of God Some fortunate conjectures of future events, which impartial reasoners might ascribe to the experience and judgment of Athanasius, were attributed by his friends to heavenly inspiration, and imputed by his enemies to infernal magic. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes They are very bad reasoners, and vehemently given to opposition, unless when they happen to be of the right opinion, which is seldom their case. Gulliver's Travels His skill as a reasoner as well as a physician, was exerted to obviate the injurious effects of this disclosure; but he had wrongly estimated the strength of my body or of my mind. Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale The inexorable reasoner, refining on the reports of sense, may dispose, as he pleases, of the chair, the table, and the so called material substances around him. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author A hasty reasoner might conclude without further ado that Law and government are evils which must be abolished if freedom is our goal. Proposed Roads to Freedom It is one of those cases where the art of the reasoner should be used rather for the sifting of details than for the acquiring of fresh evidence. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes He was a quick and powerful reasoner; and a moment's reflection sufficed to remind him of the impotency of his rage. The Pickwick Papers Like the German metaphysicians, they are abstract reasoners who do not trouble themselves about conditions. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Certain reasoners tell us that this is owing to the freedom of will, without which man could not exist. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author One which appeared in The Times, over the signature of an amateur reasoner of some celebrity at that date, attempted to deal with the matter in a critical and semi-scientific manner. Tales of Terror and Mystery It is one of those instances where the reasoner can produce an effect which seems remarkable to his neighbor, because the latter has missed the one little point which is the basis of the deduction. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes For all reasoners except that portion of the clergy who in all ages have been found among the bitterest enemies of scientific discovery, these considerations have been conclusive. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom So that although the Jacobin is a great reasoner, this does not mean that he is in the least guided by reason. The Psychology of Revolution M. Leon Faucher adds with a charming simplicity: English workingmen are fearless reasoners. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery Miss Evers's devoted swain had never struck Bernard as a brilliant reasoner, but our friend suddenly found himself regarding him as one of the inspired. Confidence That one word, my dear Watson, should have told me the whole story had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes In these days it seems hard to imagine how really competent reasoners could thus argue without laughing in each other's faces, after the manner of Cicero's augurs. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom I was never a very bright reasoner, you remember. Jude the Obscure For my part, I hope that, in spite of all the efforts of economic propagandism, French workingmen will never become reasoners of such power. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery That gives me confidence—you see I am a reasoner still. Confidence I know there is an absence of anything like reason in this, but I am not much thrown amongst reasoners. Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City Oh! reasoners sublime who have led him to this, what will you say to him if he is conquered? The Confession of a Child of the Century A hard thinker, he was never a close reasoner; in all that relates to human affairs he relies on nobility of feeling rather than on continuity of thought. Thomas Carlyle Persons of this description are easily persuaded by a plausible reasoner, that his opinions are true, and with equal facility submit to the next artful sophist, who avows even contrary sentiments. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I In general, there is a degree of doubt, and caution, and modesty, which, in all kinds of scrutiny and decision, ought for ever to accompany a just reasoner. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding All this is offensive to the dogmatic reasoner. Understanding the Scriptures "That's very good of God," said the reasoner, but with such a self-satisfied air in his approval, that Marion thought it time to stop. The Vicar's Daughter By-the-by, interrogatories artfully put may lead an unsuspicious reasoner, you know, always to your own conclusion. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Near him is another "first-rate,"—all energy and action, acute enough, a quick reasoner, very cool and resolute. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 When we reason from analogies, the man, who has the greater experience or the greater promptitude of suggesting analogies, will be the better reasoner. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding But the mind of the profounder reasoner would accept the interpretation which is supported by the higher reason, and validated by the greater number of conclusively-established facts. Life: Its True Genesis From aesthetes that we were, we have been changed into logicians; from contemplators of expression, into reasoners. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic This being his grand object, and he being no reasoner, his best friends were at a loss to know whether his book upon Christianity was serious or ironical.' Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 I love a reasoner, and do not by any means wish to be flashing lightning, cloud-riding, or playing with stars. Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" He might be skilled in every elegant accomplishment, an acute reasoner, an orator, a musician, a poet; and to some extent he was all of these. Stories from Thucydides To say of such or such a young woman, She is a bold and powerful reasoner—would it not be a little uncommon? The Young Woman's Guide Subsequent reasoners have made use of their proofs, and even given them as extremely valid. The System of Nature, Volume 2 It was very plain—to a deductive reasoner—from the girl's attitude toward him that she had fallen into relations of uncommon friendliness with this Maitland, young as Anisty believed their acquaintance to be. The Brass Bowl As the friendship between the cousins ripened, his Majesty considered that it would be well for him to have the contemplative student, prudent adviser, and able reasoner nearer to him. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Cotton fully answered and contradicted these false reasoners, who would have had to face a revolution had they attempted to keep the Puritan women from singing in meeting. Sabbath in Puritan New England Nor must it be forgotten that some reasoners deal strangely with the facts. The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham In matters of particular profession, industry, and trade, the experienced practitioner is the master, and every general reasoner is a novice. An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition Tennyson said of him: "He ought to be Lord Chancellor, for he is a subtle and powerful reasoner, and an honest man".—'Life', i., The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson This broad grasp of premises, which implies a penetrating and interpretative as well as dialectic mind, is the distinguishing difference between a great reasoner and an able logician. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics The student was a dogmatic reasoner, dry, rectilinear, never swerving from his point of view; he spoke but little, but when he did speak, it was in a sententious manner. The Quest Its exaggeration, in the ordinary estimate both of the vulgar and of skeptical reasoners, is equally certain. The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham A close reasoner and a good writer in general may be known by his pertinent use of connectives. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge All reasoners ought to be perfectly dispassionate, and ready to allow all the force of the arguments, they are to confute. Literary Remains, Volume 1 We are assured in the American preface to this volume, that while it exhibits Henry Rogers as the peer of Butler as a reasoner, it also shows him not inferior to Lamb as a humorist. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics This is greatly in your favour, for mankind are at present gross reasoners. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Previous to being enlightened by such an enlarged view of the whole facts, it would thus be a rash and unphilosophical thing in the reasoner whose existence we are supposing to pronounce an unfavorable opinion. The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham It can be no proof to a good reasoner, unless he violates all syllogistic logic, and presumes his conclusion. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge But Hamlet, in his discourse with that wise reasoner, and unfortunate practitioner, who thought that brevity was the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, puts it more briefly still. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded But we suppose that Henry Rogers himself would make no pretensions to the rank of a writer, or reasoner, or humorist of the first class. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics For reasoners here's a juggler's cup That fullest seems when nothing's in it; And nine-pins set, like systems, up, To be knocked down the following minute. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes The Baroness was a shrewd woman and a clever reasoner. An Ambitious Man I am by the law of my nature a reasoner. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The combination, as it was expressed in his face, might have arrested the attention of a less exasperated reasoner. Madame De Mauves Each reasoner calls attention to the break in the circle of logic of others, but dexterously manipulates his own circle so as to hide its missing link. To Infidelity and Back Suppose he had introduced himself as one of the strictest reasoners. Daniel Deronda He took up the matter like a reasoner. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form Hence the babes go in with the simple and the great sinners, while the reasoners, and the strong, and the proud, and the fearful are shut out.’ Catherine Booth — a Sketch Let us bring up believers, and not reasoners. World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France The sounder reasoners, the true statesmen, have, I trust, learnt a better lesson, and will teach her gallant people to prefer the more virtuous and more lasting glories of peace. Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 Several conditions had met in the Lady of Quetcham which to the reasoners in that neighborhood seemed to have an essential connection with each other. Daniel Deronda "Cotton is King!" say such reasoners as Mr. Cushing;—"Conscience is King!" said such actors as the Puritans. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 The unqualified affirmative judgment rendered by the two Boston reviewers—evidently able and practised reasoners—"must give us pause." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 It is in the nature of foolish reasoning to seem good to the foolish reasoner. Impressions of Theophrastus Such This is my sole anxiety, for you well know that I am a pitiless reasoner when I wish to be. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century More acute reasoners it would be difficult to find in any country; and in the line of erudition they have never been surpassed. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents "Let me hear your argument for the other side, most subtile of reasoners, and I may, perhaps, be able to repeat them at second-hand, when occasion calls for them." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 His arguments in this case are an illustration of his own declaration: "An adept in logic may be a very poor reasoner." A Lie Never Justifiable The spirit of superstition was so prevalent, that it infallibly caught every careless reasoner, much more every one whose interest, and honour, and ambition were engaged to support it. The History of England, Volume I This class of reasoners was quite small, however, and mainly consisted of those who had rarely been off of Oyster Pond, and who passed their days with "Gar'ner's Island" directly before their eyes. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers The men of experiment are," says he, "like ants,--they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 06 Renaissance and Reformation He is a better declaimer than reasoner—has a stronger flow of imagination than logic. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston I mean that class of reasoners who can see little in christianity even supposing it to be true. Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) Leslie was a reasoner, and a reasoner who was not to be reasoned against.' Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 Still, as a kind-hearted commander, as well as a judicious reasoner on the economy of his fellow-creatures, he fully felt the policy of granting relaxation to labour. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers Nor is this the only mistake which is generally admitted in this controversy, for these reasoners frequently confound innocence with the mere incapacity of guilt. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons I do not see how the sloppiest reasoner can evade that. In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace Lennox Yet, reasoner as he is, his pride has built Some uncouth superstition of its own. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 But he perpetually errs by being too deep or too shallow for the matter in hand, and many a school-boy is a better reasoner than he. The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 I am proud to assure you that our race comprises many philosophical reasoners—mostly indeed such as have been disabled by accidental injuries from joining in the amusements of the rest. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales In this matter Satan is an excellent reasoner. How to Live a Holy Life Each solution involved a corresponding number of conflicting doubts and anxieties, and left scarcely any choice in the mind of the reasoner. Marguerite Verne On the other hand, he had a genius for making friends, he was the center of every social circle, he was a good talker and a close reasoner. The Life of Abraham Lincoln She was not a profound reasoner upon any subject, nor could she understand how one step, even though Mara had been driven to it by hard necessity, led to many others. The Earth Trembled The Reverend gentlemen had refused to consider the Doctrine of Divorce when propounded by their contemporary, a private layman and reasoner. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 Here the reasoning goes from effect to effect, passing, however, though perhaps the reasoner is not aware that the process is so complex, through a cause common to both effects. Practical Argumentation He was one of the closest and keenest reasoners I ever knew. John Keble's Parishes But poets have been challenged to resign the civic crown to reasoners and mechanists on another plea. English literary criticism This leads us to the consideration of another question which is engrossing the minds of many thinkers and reasoners of the present day. Marvels of Modern Science We know that the mountain goat is a good reasoner in certain life- or-death matters affecting himself. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The "therefore" method usually obliges a careful reasoner, after finally reaching the conclusion, to go over the whole proof a second time. Practical Argumentation And therefore hence it is that a Christian is not called a doer, a reasoner, an objector, and perverse disputer; but a BELIEVER. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 Sara stood perfectly rigid, regarding this earnest reasoner with growing wonder. The Hollow of Her Hand Philosophers, too, some of them were, acute reasoners, sophists, casuists. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca The other was an original thinker and reasoner, with a genius for invention, and at all times impatient of training and restraint. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations In this way the closest reasoner, if he is not inventive, may find himself at a loss. Emile The little Puritan maiden was not a reasoner, but a creature of impressions and swift intuitions. Taken Alive Moreover, it did the immense service of freeing us for ever from the dilemma—Refuse to accept the creation hypothesis, and what have you to propose that can be accepted by any cautious reasoner? Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 These philosophers are the curious reasoners concerning the material or immaterial substances, in which they suppose our perceptions to inhere. A Treatise of Human Nature If Christianity were once abolished, how could the free-thinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject so calculated, in all points, whereon to display their abilities? Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 But, my wise reasoner," said Mr. Delancy, "it was the bodily form—with face, eyes, hands, feet and material garments—that was seen, not the spirit. After the Storm But observe, I entreat you, with what extreme caution all just reasoners proceed in the transferring of experiments to similar cases. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion He was a dexterous, impassioned reasoner, whom they little cared to encounter in argument on such a topic. Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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