"Digressions too take place in philosophy; and oft we find the mind of a philosopher turns aside in a curve, flies off in a tangent, or springs up in a spiral line."
Yorick's Meditations: Upon Various Interesting and Important Subjects
<u>Yorick's Meditations: Upon Various Interesting and Important Subjects. Viz. Upon Nothing. Upon Something. Upon the Thing.</u> (London: Printed for R. Stevens, 1760). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004885849.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;