"Parallactical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the volubility of a practised advocate, and seemed to delight in nothing so much as discussion, whether on the unconfirmed parallactic angle of Sirius, or the comparative weight of two straws. Amid the circle in which he occasionally found himself, ample scope was often given him for the exercise of this faculty. I once invited him, for the first time, to meet the late Robert Hall. I had calculated on ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle |
