abstrusest

The abstrusest ideas we can have are all from two sources.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

No language has a better supply of simple words for the narration of events than the Welsh, and simple words are the proper garb of narration; and no language abounds more with terms calculated to express the abstrusest ideas of the meta-physician.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

He had not a particularly complex mind, or he might have stuck for a time at that “inadvertently willed,” embracing, as it does, the abstrusest problems of voluntary action; but as it was, the idea came to him with a quite acceptable haziness.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles Herbert George 2003

He alike delighted in the imaginative beauty of poetry, and the abstrusest problems in science -- the romantic and the real -- the creative fancy and unwearied research of a truly great mind.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832 Various

The abstrusest elements of the common law are impressed into a disciplined service.

Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909

Hollond's tastes were on the borderlands of sciences, where mathematics fades into metaphysics and physics merges in the abstrusest kind of mathematics.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

He had not a particularly complex mind, or he might have stuck for a time at that "inadvertently willed," embracing, as it does, the abstrusest problems of voluntary action; but as it was, the idea came to him with a quite acceptable haziness.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

He had not a particularly complex mind, or he might have stuck for a time at that "inadvertently willed," embracing, as it does, the abstrusest problems of voluntary action; but as it was, the idea came to him with a quite acceptable haziness.

Tales of Space and Time 1906

His abstrusest thoughts became rhythmical and clear when chaunted to their own music.

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

A man who may be wise as the world counts wisdom, and able to pierce with acute analysis to the depth of the abstrusest philosophic problem, may nevertheless find himself hopelessly baffled by some quite common fact of life, such as how to treat a wayward son, or a sinful woman.

The Empire of Love William J. Dawson 1891