Metaphysician, Cloudland.

"Certainly not," replied a geologist and a metaphysician together.

One man, a prominent native in good circumstances, and well known as a great orator and metaphysician, who had for a long time been arguing with Mr. Judson about Christianity, now openly declared himself a follower of Jesus.

He was, however, more of a metaphysician than a poet, though there are splendid specimens of poetical thought in his works.

My readers will, I have no doubt, like to be satisfied, by comparing them; and, at any rate, it may entertain them to read verses composed by our great metaphysician, when a Bachelor in Physick.

David Hume (1711-1776) is the greatest metaphysician of the century.

Its conclusion startled the great German metaphysician Kant and roused him to action.

But after all, why should you complain, Monsieur, the metaphysician?

The first who attempted to apply this idea methodically to the whole universe was not a student of natural science, but a metaphysician, Hegel.

There is the attitude of the metaphysician and theologian, who are convinced not only that it exists but that it can be at least partly known.

There is the attitude of the man who denies that it exists; but he must be also a metaphysician, for its existence can only be disproved by metaphysical arguments.

Such is the German account of the matter; but my opinion isthat the murderer was an amateur, who felt how little would be gained to the cause of good taste by murdering an old, arid, and adust metaphysician; there was no room for display, as the man could not possibly look more like a mummy when dead, than he had done alive.

He, however, to use a colloquial expression, had never been to see for himself, being neither musician, theologian, or metaphysician.

But the poet of 1798 knew better than the metaphysician of 1830.

A scholar, a moralist, a metaphysician, a theologian, learned in all the lore and trained in the best methods of the schools, he is distinguished from most scholars by his broad grasp of every-day life.

the Doctor said, with that shade of curiosity in his tone which a metaphysician would probably say is an index of a certain tendency to belief in the superstition to which the question refers.

The Doctor was a philosopher, a metaphysician, a philanthropist, and in the highest and most earnest sense a minister of good on earth.

The metaphysician less than the poet, the country minister less than the successful lawyer, is the autocrat of the dinner-table.

316, n. 1; as a metaphysician, i. 472, n. 2; Dunbar, Dr., iii. 436, n. 1; Fox's character, iv. 167

The merit of a modern metaphysician is, like that of a good chemist or naturalist, accurate observation in noting the facts of mind.

Thus it happened that self-sacrifice assumed rank in course of time as a specifically feminine virtue; so much so that the German metaphysician Fichte could declare that "the woman's life should disappear in the man's without a remnant," and that this process is love.

"I should like to know this hot-headed metaphysician," was the remark made to Buffon by President De Brosses, who happened to be then at Paris; and he afterwards added, "He is a nice fellow, very pleasant, very amiable, a great philosopher, a mighty arguer, but a maker of perpetual digressions.

Neither Bog nor a much wiser metaphysician could explain it; but the house, and all around it, seemed to be glorified by the loved one within.

Too much stress has been laid on the spectacle of missionaries engaging in public controversies, and of semi-savage converts wrangling over rites and ceremonies and discussing points of theology which might well puzzle a Greek metaphysician.

Almost every idealist metaphysician has tended to look upon thought itself as constituting the inmost reality of the universe which it conceives or understands; and Kant's doctrine may make us pause and ask whether this tendency is not simply an assumption without warrant.