More efficient devices have superseded it in modern times, but it still excites the admiration of all who examine it, and its effects seem as paradoxical as ever.
Every one has heard of the screw of Archimedes, through which the paradoxical effect was produced of making water seem to flow up hill.
Paradoxical as the essay in some respects was, it is valuable as an analysis of political ideas, and its concluding sentence is full of suggestion even to minds which do not accept the opinions implied.
This is a reversal of philosophical opinion which may justly be compared to the Copernican revolution in astronomy; it is just asparadoxical as the latter, but just as incontestably true, and just as rich in results.
It is almost a descent in Campanella from these visions of the separate sensibility of nature in each particle, when he seizes hold of some physical fact or analogy to establish a subordinate and less paradoxical part of his theory.
His philosophy being wholly dogmatical, must be classed with that of the paradoxical innovators whom he followed and eclipsed.
But this extreme, as he justly observes, is rather pernicious than otherwise; for when a tenet so paradoxical and impracticable is maintained, it begets a prejudice against the more temperate course which he prepares to indicate.
He was of a more lively genius, and perhaps hardly less erudition, than his father, but with a paradoxical judgment, and has certainly rendered much less service to letters.
The similarity, of course, is the more quaint because of the dissimilarity of the personages and their productions; but it has not been insisted on from any mere spirit of mischief, or desire to make a paradoxical parallel.
Diderot, had told Jean Jacques that this was le pont aux ânes, and determined him to take the paradoxical side instead.
I remembered our journey by gig and wagon to Cassville, then, paradoxical as it may sound now, situated in the heart of a wilderness of beauty and savagery.
It takes the form of concise, often enigmatic, and usually paradoxical statements or aphorisms.
The meaning of this paradoxical situation is not easy to clarify.
The doctrine is no longer stated in the forcible paradoxical manner of Bentham, but has to be adapted to meet objections; its corners are rubbed off, and the meaning of its most characteristic expressions is softened.
We give them a meaning often paradoxical and distorted, and generally weaker than their signification in common language.
He attributes them especially to the Stoics, whose insistence on pure reason, as opposed to emotion, for the guide of life, resulted in much attention to logic, including its paradoxical forms.
Lucian is fond of ridiculing the different schools of philosophy, some for their paradoxicalchoice of ends, some for their hypocrisy in practically disregarding their own precepts.
Paradoxical as it may sound, the fatigue poisons, which in moderate amounts will produce drowsiness and promote sleep, in excessive amounts will cause wakefulness and inability to sleep.
Intelligent physicians now assist it instead of trying to check it in its early stages; and paradoxicalas it may sound, laxatives are often the best means of stopping it.
Yet did this monotheistic religion retain many of the forms and rites of other cults, paradoxical as this must have appeared.
And the paradoxical part of it all is that Candida is a womanly woman.
These people are so bad that, paradoxical as it may sound, they are good.
This paradoxical result sprang from several causes, some of them of a general nature, others due to party considerations, while the personal influence of one man perhaps turned the balance at this crisis in the history of France.
No more paradoxical situation has ever existed; and its oddity was enhanced by the usually clear-cut logicality of French political thought.
The Whig statesman, Charles James Fox, once made the profound though seemingly paradoxical assertion that the most dangerous part of a Revolution was the Restoration that ended it.
Their views on these particular questions were always very paradoxical and very breezily expressed.
Paradoxical as it may appear, this accident caused by rotten running gear was the means of saving the ship and all her crew.
The conception of the king as a corporation is the key to many of his paradoxical attributes in constitutional theory--his invisibility, immortality, &c.
Extracts from the Letters and Journals of William Cory, which contains much paradoxical and suggestive criticism, were edited by F.
Doing so, you certainly get rid of the paradoxical conclusions which my wretched scepticism sometimes suggests to me, as throwing a doubt on the integrity of our principle.
Thus is accomplished thatparadoxical synthesis of 'Eternal Rest and Eternal Work' which Ruysbroeck regards as the essential character of God, and towards which the whole of his system has been educating the human soul.
I ask myself accordingly whether the condition of the world in the coming years will be favourable to refined and paradoxical science.
This revolution in science seems, then, to be perfectly legal, and ought to be welcomed; yet only under one important moral condition, and with a paradoxical result.
And the paradoxical result is this: that the forms of science are optional, like various languages or methods of notation.
Thus to-day we have this paradoxical situation; that although Japanese Liberalism must from its very essence be revolutionary, i.
Almost had Bob, in that moment of forgetfulness, drawn her into his arms and so completed the paradoxical picture of himself, when the impulse was abruptly arrested.
They met the gaze of Bob, who hadn't yet come out of that paradoxical trance, with cold contemplation.
Some of that paradoxical happiness seemed to be fading from him.
It might at first seem paradoxical that to build up strong muscles we must first fatigue them, but that seems to be Nature's plan.
The products of these games are the substances consumed by them, paradoxical as that may at first appear.
