Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved, Volume 2Archibald Constable, 1824 |
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... kind . It was a de- monstration purely synthetical , and required , as all indirect reasoning must do , that the conclusion should be known before the reasoning is begun . A more compendious , and a more analytical method , was ...
... kind . It was a de- monstration purely synthetical , and required , as all indirect reasoning must do , that the conclusion should be known before the reasoning is begun . A more compendious , and a more analytical method , was ...
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... kind , on account of their affinity with the figure of casks , and vessels actually employed for containing liquids , appeared to Kepler to offer both curious and useful subjects of investigation . There were no less than eighty - four ...
... kind , on account of their affinity with the figure of casks , and vessels actually employed for containing liquids , appeared to Kepler to offer both curious and useful subjects of investigation . There were no less than eighty - four ...
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... kind of research , whether the quantities be constant or variable , finite or infinite , depends on this principle more than any other . Few of the early algebraists seem to have been aware of these advantages . The use of the signs ...
... kind of research , whether the quantities be constant or variable , finite or infinite , depends on this principle more than any other . Few of the early algebraists seem to have been aware of these advantages . The use of the signs ...
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... kind ; it has taken its prin- ciples from common experience , but without due attention to the evidence or the precise nature of the facts ; the philosopher is left to work out the rest from his own invention . Of this kind , called by ...
... kind ; it has taken its prin- ciples from common experience , but without due attention to the evidence or the precise nature of the facts ; the philosopher is left to work out the rest from his own invention . Of this kind , called by ...
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... kind of instantiæ solitariæ , Bacon mentions the white or coloured veins which occur in limestone or marble , and yet hardly differ in substance or in structure from the ground of the stone . He concludes , very justly , from this ...
... kind of instantiæ solitariæ , Bacon mentions the white or coloured veins which occur in limestone or marble , and yet hardly differ in substance or in structure from the ground of the stone . He concludes , very justly , from this ...
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Page 78 - Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide. Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric' scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 173 - ... of a Turkey carpet. It is sympathy with the present or the past, or the imaginary inhabitants of such a region, that alone gives it either interest or beauty; and the delight of those who behold it, will always be found to be in exact proportion to the force of their imaginations, and the warmth of their social affections. The leading impressions, here, are those of romantic seclusion, and primeval simplicity; lovers sequestered in these blissful solitudes, " from towns and toils remote...
Page 74 - The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either.
Page 10 - It seems to me, that when the animalcules, which form the corals at the bottom of the ocean, cease to live, their structures adhere to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn to increase,...
Page 26 - As things are at present conducted," he adds, " a sudden transition is made from sensible objects and particular facts to general propositions, which are accounted principles, and round which, as round so many fixed poles, disputation and argument continually revolve. From the propositions thus hastily assumed, all things are derived by a process compendious and precipitate ; ill suited to discovery, but wonderfully accommodated to debate. The way that promises success is the reverse of this. It...
Page 178 - In so far as mere feeling and enjoyment are concerned, therefore, it seems evident that the best taste must be that which belongs to the best affections, the most active fancy, and the most attentive habits of observation. It will follow pretty exactly too, that all men's perceptions of beauty will be nearly in proportion to the degree of their sensibility and social sympathies...
Page 175 - And what is it that constitutes that emotion of sublime delight, which every man of common sensibility feels upon the first prospect of Rome ? It is not the scene of destruction which is before him.
Page 179 - As all men must have some peculiar associations, all men must have some peculiar notions of beauty, and, of course, to a certain extent, a taste that the public would be entitled to consider as false or vitiated.
Page 175 - ... ordinary mortals, just because he perceives more of these analogies and relations to social emotion, in which all beauty consists; so other men see more or less of this beauty, exactly as they happen to possess that fancy, or those habits, which enable them readily to trace out these relations. From all these sources of evidence, then, we think it is pretty well made out, that the beauty or sublimity of external objects is nothing but the reflection of emotions excited by the feelings or condition...
Page 43 - ... throughout all civilized countries. Princes on whose will there were no legal checks, thus found a moral restraint which the most powerful of them could not brave with absolute impunity. They acted before a vast audience, to whose applause or condemnation they could not be utterly indifferent. The very constitution of human nature, the unalterable laws of the mind of man, against which all rebellion is fruitless, subjected the proudest tyrants to this control. No elevation of power, no depravity,...