This seems to me the solution of the little riddle propounded by Pascal in one passage of his Thoughts: "Two faces that are alike, although neither of them excites laughter by itself, make us laugh when together, on account of their likeness.
To this question, which we have already propounded in various forms, our answer must always be the same.
It is well known that at a far higher stage of culture a crude form of the evolutionary hypothesis was propoundedby the Greek philosopher Empedocles.
Some authors had propoundedthe idea that highly adapted organs, e.
Though it is full of the records of careful observation and acute reasoning, yet the theory of marine beaches which he propounded was, as he candidly admitted in after years ("M.
The second, according to Plato, is a kind of natural philosophy, the principles of which are more especially propounded in the Timæus.
These ideas he propounded with sophistic casuistry, unmistakably according to the method of the Polish Rabbinical school.
At the second sitting (July 29), the three imperial commissioners solemnly propoundedtwelve questions, which the Assembly were to answer conscientiously.
In order to strengthen respect for him, Beer propounded a theory, which in its logical application is calculated to promote most harmful consequences.
Eibeschuetz was deprived of authority as rabbi of the Hamburg community, and ordered to clear himself with regard to the incriminating amulets, and to answer fifteen questions propounded to him.
Have we not here "as in a glass darkly" a parable propounded three hundred years later in another clime and by a greater Teacher, who called Himself the Way of Righteousness, through whom the lost could be found?
A policy denounced as dangerous in the extreme in 1886 by the leader of the party was propounded as part of the policy of the same party in the following year with the acquiescence and, one must suppose, the imprimatur of its chief.
The poetic harmony displayed by Pope in his youth refuted an axiom which Dryden propounded in his lines to the memory of Oldham.
He talked of his abhorrence of party violence, and propounded his principles in dark unmeaning generalities from which nothing can be gathered, except that he wished to avoid being held responsible for any opinions whatever.
The will of God was propounded as a law, to be received both as a law and as a covenant; the acceptance of it engaged man to it as possessed of both characters.
It had been propounded as a law, and offered as the condition of a covenant.
Another and more audacious classification was once propoundedto me by Bernard Shaw, viz.
This “Canonization of the Ogre,” as it has been named, was propoundedby Professor D.
Yet the society in which the theory was propounded was so undemocratic that Plato could not work out a solution for the problem whose terms he clearly saw.
It is also apparent that the particular questions propounded by Mr. Gourlay had no direct bearing upon politics.
The 'categorical imperative,' as propounded by him, is a form of self-deception.
The former, as brilliantly propounded by the late Professor James, amounts simply to this, that in matters on which there is no good or sufficient evidence either way, we do well to believe what we would like to believe.
Condillac, while making just objections to the terms in which Molyneux propounded the question, answered it different from Locke.
The other half consists of original objections propounded by Diderot with marked vigour of thrust against Spinosa, but there is no evidence that he had gone deeper into Spinosa than the first book of the Ethics.
How absurd soever the question may appear, there are some who have propounded it.
And here we might raise the question which, according to Plato, was propounded by Socrates, as to whether virtue is knowledge, which is equivalent to asking whether virtue is rational.
It was not until very much later that logic propounded the problem of knowledge, the problem of its own validity, the scrutiny of the metalogical foundations.
This is the question propounded in the Catechism of Christian Doctrine that was taught us at school, and the answer runs: Faith is believing what we have not seen.
We now possess the principal elements of our solution; we can approach the problem just propounded by the present crisis, and, confining ourselves no longer to the appreciation of the past, can glance at the future.
To rise up, to attack its enemy manfully, to arraign the causes of the national decline, to approach boldly the solution of the most formidable problem which could be propounded here on earth, such is not the act of a nation of calculators.
And now have we variouslypropounded unto men, in this Koran, a parable of every kind; but man cavilleth at most things therein.
And now have we propounded unto men, in this Koran, parables of every kind: yet if thou bring them a verse thereof, the unbelievers will surely say, Ye are no other than publishers of vain falsehoods.
And we have variously propounded unto men in this Koran every kind of figurative argument; but the greater part of men refuse to receive it, merely out of infidelity.
Thus have we distinctly propounded our signs, that the path of the wicked might be made known.
The passage, it is said, was occasioned by al Hareth Ebn Amru, who propounded questions of this nature to Mohammed.
Accordingly, when they propounded the questions to him, he told them the two histories, but acknowledged his ignorance as to the origin of the human soul.
Some of the schemes which have been propounded are given in Wickham's Horace.
This is, then, the idea which I believe to have been at the root of Roman sacrificial ritual, and it seems to confirm the dynamic theory of sacrifice recently propounded by some French anthropologists, i.
The former was simply the creative hypothesis with the creator left out; the latter had already been propounded by De Maillet and Erasmus Darwin, among others; and, later, systematically expounded by Lamarck.
Mr Dombey, backing his chair a little, that he might the better gaze in sheer amazement at the presumptuous atom that propounded such an inquiry.
With the snuff-box and banner in full force, Sir Barnet Skettles propounded his usual inquiry to Florence on the first morning of her visit.
But when hesitating inquiries were propounded by those of his visitors disposed to controversy--seeking to handle his heresies and gauge his infidelity--he would fall from the ecstasies of rage to a dull despondency.
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