"Anomalously" Quotes from Famous Books
... captivating. In effect each would answer its single end much more perfectly than the more complex is able to attain all its complex purposes. But it is better that the whole, should be imperfectly and anomalously answered than that while some parts are provided for with great exactness, others might be totally neglected, or perhaps materially injured, by the over-care ... — The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... to many, that we are frequently foiled in our endeavours to communicate the Small Pox by inoculation to blacksmiths, who in the country are farriers. They often, as in the above instance, either resist the contagion entirely, or have the disease anomalously. Shall we not be able now to account for this on ... — An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae • Edward Jenner |