 I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by lessening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim of wages a zero,...  Sartor Resartus (1831): Lectures on Heroes (1840) - Side 117av Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 391 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1883 - 648 sider
...They need to be taught, as Thomas Carlyle says in Sartor Resartus, that " The fraction of life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your numerator as by lessening your denominator." Very often, in the home treatment of cases of neurasthenia, some member of the family needs to be dealt... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 294 sider
...will be a luxury to die in hemp. ' So true is it, what I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your...of our time write : " It is only with Renunciation (Enttagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin." 'I asked myself: What is this that,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 288 sider
...will be a luxury to die in hemp. ' So true is it, what I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by kssening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 sider
...be increased in value not so much by in' creasing your Numerator as by lessening your De' nominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, ' Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make ' thy clajm of wages a zero, then ; thou hast the world ' under thy feet. Well did the Wisest of our time... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 sider
...discovered anything which the martyrs did not see ages ago? And when he announces as a great truth, " well did the wisest of our time write, It is only with Renunciation that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin" — has he not repeated, as the result of one more... | |
 | 1850 - 676 sider
...discovered anything which the martyrs did not see ages ago? And when 'he announces as a great truth, " well did the wisest of our time write, It is only with Renunciation that life, properly, speaking, can be said to begin" — has he not repeated, as the result of one... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 260 sider
...increasing your Numerator as Sy ^r " V ' fk \ . • t-. S*. ft • /L> fL cy. xX v s<s 148 SARTOR RESARTUS. lessening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra...itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy daii'i "f wgges a KP.TO, the.n ; thou_hf s t the world under thy feet. Well did the Wisest of our time... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 654 sider
...be a luxury to ' die in hemp. ' So true it is, what I then said, that the fraction of Life can be ' increased in value not so much by increasing your...did the Wisest of our time write : " It is only with Renun' ciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to ' begin." 'I asked myself: What... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1850 - 676 sider
...So true it is, what I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be ' increased in value not to muck by increasing your Numerator as by ' lessening your Denominator. Nay. unless my Algebra detirn ' me. Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make tkr ' claim of wages a zero, then... | |
 | 1856 - 386 sider
...wonder that the balance should so often dip the wrong way True it is that the fraction of life can be increased in value, not so much by increasing your...wisest of our time write: It is only with renunciation that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin. I asked myself, What is this that, ever since earliest... | |
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