 | William Archer - Dramatic criticism - 1897 - 506 pages
...executioner's daughter is a question which leaves us cold. It is an academic poser, like the inquiry as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle? The damages which the fair Jacinta awards herself for Henri's breach of promise are clearly excessive.... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - English literature - 1896 - 312 pages
...paradox, and it suddenly flashes on one that here was the inner meaning of the old schoolman's question as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle. Who shall expound for us the law of spiritual gravitation? Who knows what radiant force of mysterious... | |
 | William Archer - English drama - 1897 - 506 pages
...executioner's daughter is a question which leaves us cold. It is an academic poser, like the inquiry as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle? The damages which the fair Jacinta awards herself for Henri's breach of promise are clearly excessive.... | |
 | Charles Frederic Aked - Baptists - 1908 - 270 pages
...about something that does not matter two straws to anybody. Such discussions are immense. The question as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle is absorbing. Jaded persons in search of a new thrill may turn to it again and again, and find it an... | |
 | Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim - Cities and towns - 1916 - 784 pages
...that Cotton Mather and Tonathan Edwards knew. No more do our students argue the metaphysical question as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle; they (the students) are busy discovering how many germs are dancing on the citizen's bread and butter.... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - New York (State) - 1910 - 234 pages
...almost rivalled in its casuistry the famous old Duns Scotus — or was it Thomas Aquinas? — debate as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle. Once we had come to a deadlock as to the kind of vehicle from which it was proper to accept such hospitality.... | |
 | Commonwealth Club of California - Breach of contract - 1920 - 616 pages
...any possible doubt the fact that the discussion of these points is about as important as a discussion as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle. (Laughter.) 32 0/S/ 0061 Diagram "E" shows the relative fluctuations in index numbers as calculated... | |
 | Commonwealth Club of California - Breach of contract - 1920 - 616 pages
...any possible doubt the fact that the discussion of these points is about as important as a discussion as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle. (Laughter.) 0/67 006/ OSS' Diagram "E" shows the relative fluctuations in index numbers as calculated... | |
 | Law - 1926 - 666 pages
...law? DEAN J. Philosophizing died out with the metaphysics of the schoolmen. Do you want to go back to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle ? DEAN P. You know perfectly well that philosophy denotes simply a higher order of generalization.... | |
 | Otto Durham Rasmussen - China - 1927 - 288 pages
...never happens, even though it gives some of us a great deal of anxiety. We are no longer perturbed as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle, or which came first, the hen or the egg. When we consider that one half the Occident is doing what... | |
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... as to how many angels can dance on the point of a needle. 
