For an abstruse poem, such as his, only requires the approbation of the judicious few; but a discourse intended for the people should be perfectly suited to their taste.
He resented its intrusion into spheres where he could only see the need of the simplest and least abstruse language.
The attempt would only hurry me into that sphere of acute feelings from which abstruse research, the mother of self-oblivion, presents an asylum.
Next, because the abstruse details of physiology, in the present, are not intelligible for general reading.
Anterior to experience, a township, as the unit of a political system, was abstruse enough to tax the Greeks and Romans to the depths of their capacities before the conception was formed and set in practical operation.
As a combination of forces it is soabstruse that it not unlikely owed its origin to accident.
Michael Scott studied such abstruse subjects as judicial astrology, alchemy, physiognomy, and chiromancy, and his commentary on Aristotle was considered to be of such a high order that it was printed in Venice in 1496.
Lewis Carroll was at that time engaged on a rather abstruse work on Conic Sections, which, when completed and published, duly appeared as "Dedicated by express command to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.
Not alone are the researches of so abstruse a character as to demand the highest genius for this branch of science, but even yet the materials for the inquiry have not been accumulated.
But Equiprobabilism is so complicated and abstruse that even the professional theologians who hold it are often at a loss how to apply it, and are found to give inconsistent decisions.
These arrows he frequently shot at learning, when she was most earnestly or usefully employed, engaged inabstruse inquiries, or giving instructions to her followers.
He alone among his countrymen possessed, if not the faculty of original speculation, the genuine philosophic impulse, and the powers of mind demanded forabstruse and systematic thinking.
The universities of Pisa and Piacenza imitated this example; but it is probable that Dante's abstruse philosophy was often more regarded in their chairs than his higher excellences.
But don't go too deep in the abstruse subjects, and don't let anyone spoil your fashion of reading, for I may want you to read to me in the years to come.
In that respect she did not inherit her father's facility nor his love for the abstruse and difficult.
But it doesn't seem really necessary for her to go into the abstruse subjects, for every year counts.
Poor Friedrich, this is a very unexpected pen-sketch on his part; but an undeniable one; betokening abstruse night-thoughts and forebodings in the present juncture!
We moreover pledge ourselves, that abstruse as the subject is, both the question, and our attempted solution of it, shall be presented to the reader in such a shape as shall compel him to understand them.
Explain abstruse Greek and Latin rules, with his mind in its present state!
Some are professors of the university, devoted to abstruse studies; some are clergymen; and some authors and artists.
If the same hieroglyphics were employed in the higher as in the lower Degrees, they had a different and moreabstruse and figurative meaning.
As a rule, no mention is made of more technical or abstruse writings, collections of documents, and so forth.
In the East, there was an intense interest felt in the abstruse questions of metaphysical theology.
After long debates and conferences on the abstruse points of doctrinal difference, a verbal agreement was reached between the two parties (1439).
When Paracelsus wrote 'The Secret of Long Life' he did so in a fashion sufficiently abstruse and complex to scare away all but the most diligent and persevering of students, this no doubt being his intention.
You think a great deal too much of all these abstruse subjects.
Poetry ought to be read slowly and carefully, and the reader ought to pay his author the compliment of crediting him with ideas as important and, on occasion, as abstruse as any in a work of philosophy or abstract science.
He first of all ordered that Clare should be kept absolutely quiet; in cheerful society, if possible, but not allowed to read too many books, or to discuss abstruse subjects.
I fear to fatigue your attention, and will, therefore, dismiss, for the present, these abstruse subjects.
In witty repartees he was equal to Rochester; while for abstruse learning he was superior to many of the most learned theologians.
