1
He was fond of, and well qualified, to work out abstruse questions in arithmetic.
2
People were discussing these abstruse questions with the same enthusiasm as they discuss football today.
3
Is it to discuss abstruse questions of political economy?
4
There was an utter absence of the abstruse questions and complications which now beset the law.
5
He studied and worked out for himself very abstruse questions, on which he formed his own opinions, usually with great sagacity.
6
Thus there remain no profound problems of state, no abstruse questions as to authorities, no conflict as to what is the law.
7
In whatever meeting, scientific assembly or theological discussion He was found, He became the authority of explanation upon intricate and abstruse questions presented.
8
For Abraham Lincoln dealt with abstruse questions in language so limpid that many a farmer, dulled by toil, heard and understood and marvelled.
9
He seemed equally at home in the most abstruse questions of theology and metaphysics, and in the more practical matters of mackerel-fishing, corn-growing, and cattle-raising.
10
His Provinciales (1656) rendered abstruse questions of theology more or less intelligible, and invited the general public to pronounce an opinion on them.