Alma mater; or, Seven years at the University of Cambridge. By a Trinity-man [J.M.F. Wright].Black, Young, and Young, Tavistock-Street, 1827 |
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... prove amusing . Eccentricities of almost every other class than this are nothing but affectation and presumption . For instance , were a person of great classical or other crudition , to insist upon smoking in the presence of fine ...
... prove amusing . Eccentricities of almost every other class than this are nothing but affectation and presumption . For instance , were a person of great classical or other crudition , to insist upon smoking in the presence of fine ...
Side 34
... proved that a to the power of nothing equals one , very prettily . W. By the bye , Pope showed me to - day how to prove two equal to one . M. The devil he did : as how , pray ? W. [ Pencils it in the Prayer - book whilst kneeling ] ...
... proved that a to the power of nothing equals one , very prettily . W. By the bye , Pope showed me to - day how to prove two equal to one . M. The devil he did : as how , pray ? W. [ Pencils it in the Prayer - book whilst kneeling ] ...
Side 121
... prove useful I won't be positive . Thus much is clear , that it is as enter- taining and instructive to the full , as is Homer's catalogue of ships , and some other lists that might be named . Books like these , at Cambridge , I ...
... prove useful I won't be positive . Thus much is clear , that it is as enter- taining and instructive to the full , as is Homer's catalogue of ships , and some other lists that might be named . Books like these , at Cambridge , I ...
Side 122
... whole period of his residence . But these notions I saw at a glance , would , at Trinity , prove fallacious . It was clear From a real love of know- as the sun , that the libraries in the University 122 BOOKS AND READING .
... whole period of his residence . But these notions I saw at a glance , would , at Trinity , prove fallacious . It was clear From a real love of know- as the sun , that the libraries in the University 122 BOOKS AND READING .
Side 126
... prove , " by the next day , and bring back with us . It was now ten o'clock , and up stairs we therefore * The fifth Proposition is so called , or rather " Pons Asinorum , " from the difficulty with which many get over it . † Are ...
... prove , " by the next day , and bring back with us . It was now ten o'clock , and up stairs we therefore * The fifth Proposition is so called , or rather " Pons Asinorum , " from the difficulty with which many get over it . † Are ...
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Alma Mater, Or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge, Volum 1 John Martin Frederick Wright Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1827 |
Alma Mater, Or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge, Volum 1 John Martin Frederick Wright Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1827 |
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Side 125 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Side 263 - ... line and the extremities of the base have the same ratio which the other sides of the triangle have to one...
Side 301 - How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight...
Side 261 - The sum of the angles of a spherical triangle is greater than two and less than six right angles. Hyp. ABC is a spherical triangle. To prove ZA + ZB + ZG> 180°, and ZA + ZB + ZC<5±0°. Proof. Construct the polar triangle A'B'C', and denote the number of degrees in B'C', C'A', and A'B', respectively, by a, b, and c.
Side 147 - FC; then, because each of the angles BAC, BAG is a right angle*, the two straight lines AC, AG upon the opposite sides of AB, make with it at the point A the adjacent angles equal to two right angles; therefore CA is in the same straight line...
Side 259 - From the same demonstration it likewise follows that the arc which a body, uniformly revolving in a circle by means of a given centripetal force, describes in any time is a mean proportional between the diameter of the circle and the space which the same body falling by the same given force would descend through in the same given time.
Side 10 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Side 97 - Questionist has kept his full number of terms ; if not, the deficiency is mentioned in the supplicat, and a certificate explaining the cause is delivered to the Caput by the Father. The Registrary shews to the Caput that every candidate has subscribed that he is Lona fide a Member of the Church of England.
Side 11 - Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Side 85 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each, and the included...