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The ideal of the metaphysician is the ideal of the animal. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
"A metaphysician is a sort of philosopher, partly visionary and partly sceptical, who sees what is concealed from all others. From Wordnik.com. [Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament.] Reference
Gentlemen, a metaphysician is a medicine man. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Heel] Reference
His father, our author says, was no metaphysician. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
Mr. Buchan is a metaphysician in spite of himself. From Wordnik.com. [No Matter How Poetic, It's Still the Filthy Lucre] Reference
For the metaphysician, however, and here we note his. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Never was metaphysician more explicit and more intelligible. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
The stained-glass window is in memory of the metaphysician, Henry. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
Torvald had claimed to be some sort of scientist, a metaphysician. From Wordnik.com. [Something Wicked] Reference
A financier, a pure economist, a metaphysician of the revolution, said. From Wordnik.com. [CDR ANNIVERSARY MEETING] Reference
Hamilton, the greatest British metaphysician since Locke and Hume, -- she. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
(The rigorous metaphysician will please not begin to carp at our definition.). From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
It is certainly a question not restricted to the physician nor yet to the metaphysician. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
You will search in vain for Dr Thomas Reid, the metaphysician, but will readily find Isaac. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
His paternal grandmother was a kinsman of John Locke, the English philosopher and metaphysician. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
"I love 'The Secret' but I also think it's missing a couple things," says "metaphysician" Joe Vitale. From Wordnik.com. [Decoding 'The Secret'] Reference
Now, the way in which a plain man should meet this statement, is this -- he should ask the metaphysician. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
Here we may look upon the lineaments of the great metaphysician, exhibiting the calm simplicity of greatness. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
In estimating Büchner's philosophy it must be remembered that he was primarily a physiologist, not a metaphysician. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Such are the amenities of expression into which an eloquent metaphysician, trying his best to speak popularly, is led. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
The products of the metaphysician must therefore be seen to be “imaginary” first and foremost in a pejorative sense. From Wordnik.com. [METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION] Reference
Thunder-ten tronckh, who is one of the first barons of the empire, and of Mr. Pangloss, the most profound metaphysician in. From Wordnik.com. [Candide] Reference
He is the doubting philosopher, the subtle metaphysician, the self-analyzer, always 'thinking too precisely upon the event.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The older type of metaphysician with his staggering vocabulary and his bag of "categories" has now chiefly a historic interest. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
We proceed to exhibit the grounds upon which the metaphysician claims for the perception of matter a totally objective existence. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Anticipations of this doctrine are to be found in the writings of every great metaphysician -- of every man that ever speculated. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
The metaphysician buries himself in the laws of mind and forgets that there may be spiritual influences producing all those laws. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
Thus in all his works he has set himself to analyse, to distil; or, in better phrase, has been metaphysician even more than poet. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference
My fellow Americans, take it from a metaphysician: Life on Earth will survive because of the visions of humans like Barack Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Susan Corso: Nobel Encouragement] Reference
THOMAS BROWN, M.D. Illustrious as a metaphysician, D. Thomas Brown is entitled to a place in the poetical literature of his country. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
He, the subtlest metaphysician in England, was, as a poet, content to express elementary and universal feelings in the plainest terms. From Wordnik.com. [Coleridge's Conversation Poems] Reference
The Doctor was a philosopher, a metaphysician, a philanthropist, and in the highest and most earnest sense a minister of good on earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
Trained as a CPA, he has, through contemplation of the world's largest questions, emerged as a metaphysician of no mean accomplishment. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Susan Corso: Mike Dooley's Infinite Possibilities] Reference
Trained as a CPA, he has, through contemplation of the world\'s largest questions, emerged as a metaphysician of no mean accomplishment. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Susan Corso: Mike Dooley's Infinite Possibilities] Reference
It is then, according to Bacon, through following the natural, undirected propensities of his mind that the metaphysician falls into error. From Wordnik.com. [METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION] Reference
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