paradoxer

This is the only plan, for much of the remark is personal: the peculiarities of the paradoxer are a large part of the interest of the paradox.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

Chesterton, the prose-paradoxer, is a delightful product of a skeptical age.

Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

Let no one dismiss M. Sorel then as an empty paradoxer.

A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931

Chesterton, the prose-paradoxer, is a delightful product of a skeptical age.

Biographical Sketches Louis Untermeyer 1920

The majority of men at the present day have grown accustomed to hear the motion of the earth spoken of: their acceptance of it means nothing: the attitude of the paradoxer who denies it is more intelligent.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

But we have some: and that, as a man of genius, he is superior to any single person named and known in earlier French literature, can hardly be contested by any one who is neither a silly paradoxer nor a mere dullard, nor affected by some extra-literary prejudice -- religious, moral, or whatever it may be.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

By agreement of all but the purblind and the paradoxer, Shakespeare.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

And one need not be a common paradoxer to take either side on the question whether on the whole the omen, if not the actuality, of _L'Homme Qui Rit_ or that of _Les

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

I shall call each of these persons a _paradoxer_, and his system a _paradox_.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

Mr. Wirgman, an itinerant paradoxer, called on me in 1831: he came to convert me.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838