 | Augustus De Morgan - 1872 - 530 pages
...idea of Mr. James Smith's superiority to the rest of the world in the points in which he is superior. He is beyond a doubt the ablest head at unreasoning,...cyclometers sink into puny orthodoxy by his side. The behaviour of this singular character induces me to pay him the compliment which Achilles paid Hector,... | |
 | Leslie Leland Locke - 1909 - 364 pages
...honor, being so near the truth, and he having no means of instruction." Further speaking of Smith, he says: "He is, beyond a doubt, the ablest head at unreasoning,...— to drag him around the walls again and again." Again : "As to Mr. James Smith, we can only say this : he is not mad. Madmen reason rightly upon wrong... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 376 pages
...honor, being so near the truth, and he having no means of instruction." Further speaking of Smith, he says: "He is, beyond a doubt, the ablest head at unreasoning,...induces me to pay him the compliment Achilles paid Hector—to drag him around the walls again and again." Again: "As to Mr. James Smith, we can only... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - 1915 - 406 pages
...idea of Mr. James Smith's superiority to the rest of the world in the points in which he is superior. He is beyond a doubt the ablest head at unreasoning,...singular character induces me to pay him the compliment which Achilles paid Hector, to drag him round the walls again and again. He was treated with unusual... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - 1916 - 460 pages
...idea of Mr. James Smith's superiority to the rest of the world in the points in which he is superior. He is beyond a doubt the ablest head at unreasoning,...singular character induces me to pay him the compliment which Achilles paid Hector, to drag him around the walls again and again. . . He will come out of my... | |
 | Andrew I. Dale - 1999 - 714 pages
...X is X), make me 1,864 years old, which is a great deal to much, [de Morgan 1915, vol. II, p. 124] He is beyond a doubt the ablest head at unreasoning,...tried in our day to attach their names to an error, [de Morgan 1915, vol. II, p. 104] 37. Heath [1966, p. vii] asserts that the defective eye was the right.... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - 2007 - 809 pages
...idea of Mr. James Smith's superiority to the rest of the world in the points in which he is superior. He is beyond a doubt the ablest head at unreasoning,...greatest hand at writing it, of all who have tried in otir day to attach their names to an error. Common cyclometers sink into puny orthodoxy by his side.... | |
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When my work appeared in numbers, I had not anything like an adequate idea of Mr. James Smith's superiority to the rest of the world in the points in which he is superior. He is beyond a doubt the ablest head at unreasoning, and the greatest hand at writing... 