"Dormitive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of our day—the a priori philosopher—tries the question whether opium can cause sleep by finding out in the recesses of his own noddle whether the drug can have a dormitive power: Well! but did not the schoolman do the same? He did; but mark the distinction. The schoolman had recourse to first principles, when there was no opium to try it by: our man settles the point in the same way with a lump of opium before him. The ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan |
