Yet all these are not reasons; they are only ingenious excuses for having no reasons.

Not only ingenious but correct, my dear friend, for it completely explains all the phenomena of caloric.

One only ingenious method, and a thousand times safer, because it acted morally, not materially, was employed to remove M. Hardy.

We are only ingenious in using ourselves ill: 'tis the real quarry our intellects fly at; and intellect, when misapplied, is a dangerous tool!