The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 152A. Constable, 1880 |
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... least ques- tionable in its results was that leading to the love and study of nature . Two men of singular genius , Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci , led the way ; and their example was followed by the astronomers ...
... least ques- tionable in its results was that leading to the love and study of nature . Two men of singular genius , Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci , led the way ; and their example was followed by the astronomers ...
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... least in part , realised by the foundation of the Royal Society . It This celebrated institution had its origin in the meetings of the Invisible College , ' of which Robert Boyle , John Wallis , and Dr. Wilkins , afterwards Bishop of ...
... least in part , realised by the foundation of the Royal Society . It This celebrated institution had its origin in the meetings of the Invisible College , ' of which Robert Boyle , John Wallis , and Dr. Wilkins , afterwards Bishop of ...
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... least skilful hand might be guided to define a perfect circle . This was the universal nostrum - the elixir vitæ of science- which had the one drawback common to all methods professing to transcend nature ; that its operation was ...
... least skilful hand might be guided to define a perfect circle . This was the universal nostrum - the elixir vitæ of science- which had the one drawback common to all methods professing to transcend nature ; that its operation was ...
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... least , of any man in the world that ever I saw . ' His personal ap- pearance , indeed , was to the last degree deplorable . His figure was crooked , his limbs shrunken and emaciated , his aspect meagre , his carriage stooping . He wore ...
... least , of any man in the world that ever I saw . ' His personal ap- pearance , indeed , was to the last degree deplorable . His figure was crooked , his limbs shrunken and emaciated , his aspect meagre , his carriage stooping . He wore ...
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... least , Hooke's ideas were persistent and progressive . In 1674 he announced a forthcoming ' system of the world , answering in all things to the common rules of ' mechanical motions , and founded on the three following suppositions ...
... least , Hooke's ideas were persistent and progressive . In 1674 he announced a forthcoming ' system of the world , answering in all things to the common rules of ' mechanical motions , and founded on the three following suppositions ...
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Side 116 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Side 118 - The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them; and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Side 18 - Change, and there my Lord and most of the company to a club supper ; Sir P. Neale. Sir B. Murray, Dr. Clerke, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Goddard, and others of the most eminent worth. Above all Mr. Boyle was at the meeting, and above him, Mr. Hooke. who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that ever I saw.
Side 242 - FAREWELL [MAY 1669] every time that I take a pen in my hand; and therefore whatever comes of it I must forbear: and therefore resolve from this time forward to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must...
Side 238 - Sacrament, which troubled me, but I took no notice of it, but she went on from one thing to another till at last it appeared plainly her trouble was at what she saw, but yet I did not know how much she saw, and therefore said nothing to her.
Side 562 - February, 1769, was ordered to be expunged from the journals as " subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom.
Side 114 - I am sure, if I had a severe illness, I should give up at once, I should not struggle for life. I have no tenacity of life.
Side 116 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Side 248 - And so home to our own church, it being the common Fast-day, and it was just before sermon ; but, Lord ! how all the people in the church stared upon me to see me whisper to Sir John Minnes and my Lady Pen. Anon I saw people stirring and whispering below, and by and by comes up the sexton from my Lady Ford to tell me the news, which I had brought, being now sent into the church by Sir W. Batten in writing, and passed from pew to pew.
Side 31 - That all bodies whatsoever that are put into a direct and simple motion, will so continue to move forward in a straight line, till they are by some other effectual powers deflected and bent into a Motion, describing a Circle, Ellipsis, or some other more compounded Curve Line.