To what degree this loose mode of classing and Denominating objects has rendered the vocabulary of mental and moral philosophy unfit for the purposes of accurate thinking, is best known to whoever has most reflected on the present condition of those branches of knowledge.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill
It is almost always the part that is last written, and we perpetrate the bull, by placing it at the beginning instead of the end of the book, and Denominating our parting words introductory remarks.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
But in the train of reasoning of which this is a very condensed epitome, it is evident that the legitimacy of Denominating this Absolute Being Deity, must depend on the exact meaning which we attach to the word "Absolute"-and this, be it observed, quite apart from the question, before touched upon, as to whether Personality and Intelligence are not to be considered as attributes essential to Deity.
"A Candid Examination of Theism"
George John Romanes