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... ANSWER . THE QUERIST · DISCOURSE ADDRESSED TO MAGISTRATES SIRIS TWO LETTERS ON THE REBELLION OF 1745 FOUR LETTERS ON TAR - WATER . A WORD TO THE WISE MAXIMS CONCERNING PATRIOTISM FARTHER THOUGHTS ON TAR - WATER I 53 97 III • 169 · 198 ...
... ANSWER . THE QUERIST · DISCOURSE ADDRESSED TO MAGISTRATES SIRIS TWO LETTERS ON THE REBELLION OF 1745 FOUR LETTERS ON TAR - WATER . A WORD TO THE WISE MAXIMS CONCERNING PATRIOTISM FARTHER THOUGHTS ON TAR - WATER I 53 97 III • 169 · 198 ...
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... answer to this you will perhaps say , that the conclusions are accurately true , and that therefore the principles and methods from whence they are derived must be so too . But this inverted way of de- monstrating your principles by ...
... answer to this you will perhaps say , that the conclusions are accurately true , and that therefore the principles and methods from whence they are derived must be so too . But this inverted way of de- monstrating your principles by ...
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... answer , the true reason hereof is plainly this : because q being unit , qo is equal to o : and therefore 2x + 0 - qo = y = 2x , the equal quantities go and o being destroyed by contrary signs . 27. As , on the one hand , it were absurd ...
... answer , the true reason hereof is plainly this : because q being unit , qo is equal to o : and therefore 2x + 0 - qo = y = 2x , the equal quantities go and o being destroyed by contrary signs . 27. As , on the one hand , it were absurd ...
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... fluxions . It will therefore answer all intents as well . Why then are fluxions introduced ? Is it not to shun or rather to palliate the use of quantities infinitely small ? But we have ADDRESSED TO AN INFIDEL MATHEMATICIAN . 31.
... fluxions . It will therefore answer all intents as well . Why then are fluxions introduced ? Is it not to shun or rather to palliate the use of quantities infinitely small ? But we have ADDRESSED TO AN INFIDEL MATHEMATICIAN . 31.
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... answer that if in the use or application of this method those difficult and obscure points are not attended to , they are nevertheless supposed . They are the foundations on which the moderns build , the principles on which they proceed ...
... answer that if in the use or application of this method those difficult and obscure points are not attended to , they are nevertheless supposed . They are the foundations on which the moderns build , the principles on which they proceed ...
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