Works, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, 1898 |
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... cause of infidelity . 2. Their principles and methods to be examined with the same freedom which they assume with regard to the principles and mysteries of religion . In what sense and how far geometry is to be allowed an improvement of ...
... cause of infidelity . 2. Their principles and methods to be examined with the same freedom which they assume with regard to the principles and mysteries of religion . In what sense and how far geometry is to be allowed an improvement of ...
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... cause or motive is obvious ; but it is not so obvious or easy to explain a just and legitimate reason for it , or show it to be geometrical . 12. From the foregoing principle , so demonstrated , the general rule for finding the fluxion ...
... cause or motive is obvious ; but it is not so obvious or easy to explain a just and legitimate reason for it , or show it to be geometrical . 12. From the foregoing principle , so demonstrated , the general rule for finding the fluxion ...
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... cause yy = px , 22 will be equal to x . Therefore substituting these values instead of m and x we shall have my__ zyynp + ynnp n + 2 = 2x 2yyp i.e. 2yn + nn n + 2 = : 2y which being reduced gives nn dy dy 2 = = Q.E.D. 2y 2y 23. Now , I ...
... cause yy = px , 22 will be equal to x . Therefore substituting these values instead of m and x we shall have my__ zyynp + ynnp n + 2 = 2x 2yyp i.e. 2yn + nn n + 2 = : 2y which being reduced gives nn dy dy 2 = = Q.E.D. 2y 2y 23. Now , I ...
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... cause of contrary errors , which , destroying each other , do , upon the whole , cause that nothing is really , though something is apparently , thrown out . And this reason holds equally with respect to quantities finite as well as ...
... cause of contrary errors , which , destroying each other , do , upon the whole , cause that nothing is really , though something is apparently , thrown out . And this reason holds equally with respect to quantities finite as well as ...
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... cause of the supposing finite extension infinitely divisible ; and of all the difficulties and absurdities conse- quent thereupon ? Qu . 18. Whether , from geometrical propositions being general , and the lines in diagrams being ...
... cause of the supposing finite extension infinitely divisible ; and of all the difficulties and absurdities conse- quent thereupon ? Qu . 18. Whether , from geometrical propositions being general , and the lines in diagrams being ...
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Page 388 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
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