The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by William HayleyW. Mason, 1810 |
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... equals are added to equals , the result are equal , ( b ) when equals are multiplied by equals , the results are equal , ( c ) when the same is added to equals , the results are equal , ( d ) when the same is multiplied by equals , the ...
... equals are added to equals , the result are equal , ( b ) when equals are multiplied by equals , the results are equal , ( c ) when the same is added to equals , the results are equal , ( d ) when the same is multiplied by equals , the ...
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... equal angle by first looking for the sides which are given equal . A M is given equal to B N , and the angles opposite these equal sides are equal ; .. in As A D M and BCN at D Zat C. Also A D was proved equal to B C ; hence the angles ...
... equal angle by first looking for the sides which are given equal . A M is given equal to B N , and the angles opposite these equal sides are equal ; .. in As A D M and BCN at D Zat C. Also A D was proved equal to B C ; hence the angles ...
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... equal to 0.125 . equal to 1.00 4.00 , the orifices take on the characteristics of short tubes . Insufficient data in that range precludes a more exact specification of the transition point . At B equal to 0.250 , the full transition to ...
... equal to 0.125 . equal to 1.00 4.00 , the orifices take on the characteristics of short tubes . Insufficient data in that range precludes a more exact specification of the transition point . At B equal to 0.250 , the full transition to ...
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... equal to a given rectangle , and have the sum of the squares of the sides equal to a given square , and the difference of the segments of the base made by the perpendicular from the vertical angle a given difference . Solution by R ...
... equal to a given rectangle , and have the sum of the squares of the sides equal to a given square , and the difference of the segments of the base made by the perpendicular from the vertical angle a given difference . Solution by R ...
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... equal to the large original one . But when this occurs all the small semicircumferences coincide with the diameter of the circle and their sum is hence equal to it . Accordingly , it has been proved that the semicircumference of any ...
... equal to the large original one . But when this occurs all the small semicircumferences coincide with the diameter of the circle and their sum is hence equal to it . Accordingly , it has been proved that the semicircumference of any ...
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Page 84 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 57 - ... grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent 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.
Page 108 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste frora the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 33 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 104 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Page 130 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 229 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice; nor could the muse defend Her son. So fail not thou, who thee implores; For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.
Page 104 - ... what king or knight before the Conquest might be chosen, in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero.
Page 56 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 111 - ... up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught: then, with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness...