Publicly he asserts in the Senate that the immortality of the soul is a vain chimera.

But the life of Geber, though spent in the pursuit of this vain chimera, was not altogether useless.

Nature, in this acceptation, is a vain chimera, introduced by those heathens who had not just notions of the omnipresence and infinite perfection of God.

Honor, friendship and virtue were regarded as the vain chimeras of a fool.

He was not, however, long amused by these vain chimeras, which soon vanished before other reflections of more importance and solidity.

None of those silly plans and vain chimeras which are dinned in the ears of our superintendents;