 | New Church gen. confer - 616 หน้า
...seen to be, when the material frame has been thrown off. The senseless discussions of the schoolmen, as to how many angels could stand on the point of a needle, and whether a spirit could pass from one spot to another without going over the intermediate space,... | |
 | Truth-seeker and present age - 1849 - 540 หน้า
...occupy the same position in the future history of literature, which the discussions of a former period, as to how many angels could stand on the point of a needle, do to us in the present. If the over-population theory were merely harmless, we might laugh at it.... | |
 | 1868 - 970 หน้า
...were some of saintlike purity. Those were the days when pedantic schoolmen battled over the question as to how many angels could stand on the point of a needle. Alchemists sought to discover the philosopher's stone, and to concoct the elixir of life. The Church... | |
 | 1876 - 826 หน้า
...circle of the school-men. Creative power had died out and the mumbling of dog Latin, and discussions as to how many angels could stand on the point of a needle at once, without jostling each other, occupied the ignorant piety of the convents. Then came this spiritual... | |
 | 1876 - 592 หน้า
...seen to be, when the material frame has been thrown off. The senseless discussions of the schoolmen, as to how many angels could stand on the point of a needle, and whether a spirit could pass from one spot to another without going over the intermediate space,... | |
 | 1892 - 612 หน้า
...of n dimensions appear to me to be strictly cognate with the mediaeval discussion of the schoolmen as to how many angels could stand on the point of a needle. If Mr. Garside (query 75317, p. 97) can beg, buy, or borrow a celestial globe, he will be аЫе to... | |
 | 1896 - 518 หน้า
...McLellan and Dewey, in the issue of November 28, this addition may be seasonable. We read of a scholastic discussion as to how many angels could stand on the point of a needle. Suppose that some investigator had decided that the true number was exactly one hundred and eleven,... | |
 | Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1897 - 278 หน้า
...perilous eminence on an Alpine crag, that they had solved the problem, which had perplexed the Schoolmen, as to how many angels could stand on the point of a needle. Sometimes a satiric touch. Some of the pleasure-hunting invalids at Homburg remember an observation... | |
 | James Seguin De Benneville - 1908 - 622 หน้า
...thrashing over the old straw of scholastic debates, wherein it became a matter of grave speculation as to how many angels could stand on the point of a needle. Turning to those outlets of the mind that deal with the non-speculative, we are here in contact with... | |
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It is most curious to find this exact analogy to the notorious discussion as to how many angels could stand on the point of a needle in a commentary written at just that period of Buddhist history which corresponds to the Middle Ages of Christendom. 
