The Whig Flying Post chaffed Mercator for trying to reconcile Impossibilities, but Mercator held stoutly on with an elaborate apparatus of comparative tables of exports and imports, and ingenious schemes for the development of various branches of the trade with France.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
He was now actually called upon to prove that he could perform apparent Impossibilities under very trying circumstances and with somewhat limited resources.
"Ahead of the Army"
W. O. Stoddard
This negative evidence consists of a heap of improbabilities and Impossibilities, of which even a few will serve to convince the reader.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)