Lexicographical Neighbors of Clinamen
Literary usage of Clinamen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Demonstration of the Existence of God: Deduced from the Knowledge of (1754)
"The clinamen, as we have already ... Now the will of man, upon the principle of
the clinamen, is riot more free than the Hone. ..."
2. A Demonstration of the Existence and Attributes of God, Drawn from the by René Joseph de Tournemine (1811)
"Without the clinamen the straight line can never produce any thing, ... With the
clinamen, a fabulous poetical invention, the direct line is violated, ..."
3. De Quincey's Writings by Thomas De Quincey (1854)
"It is well that the necessities of the understanding gradually reach all such
cases by that insensible clinamen which fits them for a better purpose, ..."
4. The Art of Conversation: And Other Papers by Thomas De Quincey (1863)
"It is well that the necessities of the understanding gradually reach all such
cases by that insensible clinamen which fits them for a better purpose than ..."
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