The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 第 92 卷A. Constable, 1850 |
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... tion to bring them within the compass of human industry . These methods form a conspicuous feature of the general sub- ject , and have furnished scope for very extraordinary displays of mathematical talent and invention . That very ...
... tion to bring them within the compass of human industry . These methods form a conspicuous feature of the general sub- ject , and have furnished scope for very extraordinary displays of mathematical talent and invention . That very ...
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... tion , however narrow , approach to certainty as nearly as we please . The first of these propositions has the air of a truism , when the meaning of its terms is not nicely weighed . But the second is obviously of paramount importance ...
... tion , however narrow , approach to certainty as nearly as we please . The first of these propositions has the air of a truism , when the meaning of its terms is not nicely weighed . But the second is obviously of paramount importance ...
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... tion of every reader . Nowhere can be found so great a body of important discoveries , so consecutively enchained , and so dis- tinctly and impressively announced . It is not , perhaps , too much to say , that were all the literature of ...
... tion of every reader . Nowhere can be found so great a body of important discoveries , so consecutively enchained , and so dis- tinctly and impressively announced . It is not , perhaps , too much to say , that were all the literature of ...
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... tion acquired . Its author is a teacher well worth listening to , and may claim attention on the excellent ground that he has himself approached his subject in a practical manner , through a long and severe apprenticeship to the actual ...
... tion acquired . Its author is a teacher well worth listening to , and may claim attention on the excellent ground that he has himself approached his subject in a practical manner , through a long and severe apprenticeship to the actual ...
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... tion is founded the principle of the subdivision of risks , which , rightly understood , so as to preserve their absolute indepen- dence while multiplying their number , is the best guarantee of commercial security . It is by such ...
... tion is founded the principle of the subdivision of risks , which , rightly understood , so as to preserve their absolute indepen- dence while multiplying their number , is the best guarantee of commercial security . It is by such ...
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第 352 頁 - 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!
第 276 頁 - 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?
第 327 頁 - ... 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.
第 90 頁 - Stoop then, and wash. — How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown ? Bru.
第 332 頁 - 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.
第 347 頁 - 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.
第 557 頁 - 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.