The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 92A. Constable, 1850 |
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... thought can be applied , which calls for so continuous an application of that excellent quality , or in which it is easier to make mistakes from simple want of circum- spection . And , moreover , that its reduction to calculation is ...
... thought can be applied , which calls for so continuous an application of that excellent quality , or in which it is easier to make mistakes from simple want of circum- spection . And , moreover , that its reduction to calculation is ...
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... thoughts . It is a certain quantity of non - luminous matter , interposed between the author and his meaning , which ... thought is but loosely engaged . But the welling waters of scientific lore should be clear , glassy , and unrippled ...
... thoughts . It is a certain quantity of non - luminous matter , interposed between the author and his meaning , which ... thought is but loosely engaged . But the welling waters of scientific lore should be clear , glassy , and unrippled ...
Side 29
... thought , and the ratio of this enor- mous number to unity , is that of the probability of the phe- nomenon having happened by cause , to that of its having happened by chance . The theorem on which depends this curious application of ...
... thought , and the ratio of this enor- mous number to unity , is that of the probability of the phe- nomenon having happened by cause , to that of its having happened by chance . The theorem on which depends this curious application of ...
Side 50
... thought neces- sary to establish that the number of crimes is inversely as the number of children sent to school- as if the number of crimes , even were it known , had as its only cause the greater or less developement of the intellect ...
... thought neces- sary to establish that the number of crimes is inversely as the number of children sent to school- as if the number of crimes , even were it known , had as its only cause the greater or less developement of the intellect ...
Side 55
... Jourdain faisait de la prose , ' ) — as Moliere's M. Jourdain ( with whom we should have thought every one at all conversant with the language must be familiar ) used to make prose .. 6 6 Who can affirm , ' says the translator.
... Jourdain faisait de la prose , ' ) — as Moliere's M. Jourdain ( with whom we should have thought every one at all conversant with the language must be familiar ) used to make prose .. 6 6 Who can affirm , ' says the translator.
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Side 352 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Side 276 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Side 327 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Side 90 - Stoop then, and wash. — How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown ? Bru.
Side 332 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
Side 347 - This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Side 557 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.