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Definition of Thinkers
1. thinker [n] - See also: thinker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thinkers
Literary usage of Thinkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"On the other hand, the Free-thinkers and the sectaries were able to co-operate
politically without much difficulty ; and many of Jefferson's greatest ..."
2. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"Aim and endeavours of free-thinkers. 3. Opposed by the clergy. 4. Liberty of
free-thinking. 5. Farther account of the views of free-thinkers. 6. ..."
3. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1866)
"After the death of Locke in 1794, and that of New- ton in 1727, there was in
England a singular dearth of speculative thinkers ; and this not because the ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"With Bentham arises the group of thinkers who have appropriated the name of ...
Unlike the later thinkers of this school, Hume did not discuss or attempt ..."
5. Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1815 by Henry Morse Stephens (1907)
"... The influence of the thinkers and writers of the Eighteenth Century in bringing
about the change — Contrast between the French and German thinkers— The ..."
6. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"Such thinkers may form a positive Council, under one form or another, and act
either by reviewing and renovating all human conceptions ; or by instituting ..."
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