Vulgar words in A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (Page 1)
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The best proof of the astronomer is just such "as might have been expected from the merest of blockheads"; but as the giver is of course not a blockhead, this circumstance shows how deeply blinded by prejudice he must be.
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The Messiah, with His Divine mission proved by miracles which all might see who chose to look, is degraded into a prototype of James Laurie, ingeniously astronomizing upon ignorant geometry and false logic, and comparing to blockheads those who expose his nonsense.
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This knocked up the scheme.
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Not that this is the whole explanation, nor in itself objectionable: the great mass of the world must be tended, soul and body, by those who are neither Hookers[345] nor Harveys[346]: let such persons not venture _ultra crepidam_, and they are useful and respectable.
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The Stagirite (who knew the difference) called him a blockhead.
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"Three circlesquarers to the manner born, Switzerland, France, and England did adorn, De Fauré in equations did surpass, Joseph at contradictions was an ass.
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Buridan's Ass, I, 37.
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[371] The spelling of these names is occasionally changed to meet the condition that the numerical value of the letters shall be 666, "the number of the beast" of Revelations.