Among the various sciences which curiosity had induced him to explore, He neglected not that which by most is esteemed impious, and by many chimerical.
So let's talk about the woman at the centre of it all, this kind of strange, chimerical figure called Leigh Sabine, who goes by many different kind of personalities.
The first adventurers of all the other nations of Europe who attempted to make settlements in America, were animated by the like chimerical views; but they were not equally successful.
It would be altogether chimerical, therefore, to expect that the public debt should ever be completely discharged, by any savings which are likely to be made from that ordinary revenue as it stands at present.
That no one of us will ever act in a way which is adequate to what is contained in the pure idea of virtue is far from proving this thought to be in any respect chimerical.