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 | George Combe - 1839 - 422 sider
...question of Materialism is as foolish and unimportant as the one so much agitated in the dark ages, of how many angels can dance on the point of a needle ; and has nothing whatever to do with the question of Immortality. " The writers in favour of the immortality... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1870 - 1004 sider
...Jfntberry " ' Angel'ic Doctor. Thomas Aqui'nas was so called, because he discussed the knotty point of " how many angels can dance on the point of a needle," or, more itrictly speaking, " Utrutn An'gttm potfit motJri dt crtrSmo ad actrtfnnm turn Iranmade per... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 sider
...Pártemenos (qv). Angelic Doctor. A name bestowed upon Thomas Aquinas, because he discussed the knotty point of " how many angels can dance on the point of a needle." He was also called the ANOEL OF тяж SCHOOLS. Angelo. A character in Shakespeare's Mensure for Measure... | |
 | Albert Romer Frey - 1887 - 500 sider
...Lord Sidmouth. Doctor Angelicus. Thomas Aquinas was so called, because he discussed the knotty point of " how many angels can dance on the point of a needle," or, more strictly speaking, " Utrum Ángelus possit moveri de extremo ad extremum non transeundo per... | |
 | George Egerton - 1894 - 264 sider
...headed by cardinals who spend their lives in deciding theological quibbles as futile as the famous one of 'how many angels can dance on the point of a needle ' ! And as it passes on, with its mitres, and costly robes, and swinging censers, and waxen lights... | |
 | Henry Arthur Jones - 1913 - 398 sider
...command our vast respect in any other employment — say in solving that other still vexed problem of how many angels can dance on the point of a needle. It was a little puzzling to find Sir Edward Carson among the Honorary Tasters of Morality. Sir Edward... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1923 - 532 sider
...would, as a matter of fact, itself be the united church we are seeking after is immaterial, and like the question of how many angels can dance on the point of a needle, need not be answered, if it could be, for it is immaterial. The important point is, that the greater... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on War Claims - 1928 - 150 sider
...uix'n by the subsequent conclusion of a contract by the procurement division, with manufacturers dually selected. Like the theological disputations during...on the point of a needle." that point indeed was so flue I could not see it at the time. If that was the case with a trained lawyer of 18 years' evperienee... | |
 | 510 sider
...to come, he followed developments in logic with dismay. Writing on January 20, 1948, Lewis said: the question of how many angels can dance on the point of a needle, will not be even a good parody. And if it makes no eventual difference to right and wrong or the love... | |
 | Teun Koetsier, Luc Bergmans - 2004 - 716 sider
...Brewer, in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, had said that Thomas Aquinas had "discussed the knotty point of how many angels can dance on the point of a needle", adding that what St. Thomas discussed in fact was "more strictly speaking, Utrum angelus possit moveri... | |
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