Lives of Eminent PersonsBaldwin and Cradock, 1833 - 571 páginas |
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... proportions , and what constitutes their beauty Concerning the picturesque in architecture 6 Of Gothic architecture - the title a misno- mer , the Goths having had no share in its invention He was a poet as well as an astronomer 14 ...
... proportions , and what constitutes their beauty Concerning the picturesque in architecture 6 Of Gothic architecture - the title a misno- mer , the Goths having had no share in its invention He was a poet as well as an astronomer 14 ...
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... proportion of their weights . The experiment is certainly not a very difficult one , but nobody thought of that method of argument , and con- sequently this assertion had been long received , upon his word , among the axioms of the ...
... proportion of their weights . The experiment is certainly not a very difficult one , but nobody thought of that method of argument , and con- sequently this assertion had been long received , upon his word , among the axioms of the ...
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... proportion , with a fourth pair on which were registered the specific gravities of several of the most common metals . These were used for multipli- cations , divisions , and the extraction of roots ; for finding the dimensions of ...
... proportion , with a fourth pair on which were registered the specific gravities of several of the most common metals . These were used for multipli- cations , divisions , and the extraction of roots ; for finding the dimensions of ...
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... proportion seems to me to require , ) six or eight round Saturn , and perhaps one each round Mercury and Venus ... proportions , and has expressed his sentiments concerning them very unequivocally . " How great and common an error ...
... proportion seems to me to require , ) six or eight round Saturn , and perhaps one each round Mercury and Venus ... proportions , and has expressed his sentiments concerning them very unequivocally . " How great and common an error ...
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... proportions ; but , on the con- trary , God , with no regard to our ima- ginary symmetries , has ordered them in ... proportion to it , rather than such that we have not yet been able to explain what the ratio between them is ; but ...
... proportions ; but , on the con- trary , God , with no regard to our ima- ginary symmetries , has ordered them in ... proportion to it , rather than such that we have not yet been able to explain what the ratio between them is ; but ...
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Página 20 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Página 14 - 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...
Página 35 - I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there -were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots : and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Página 33 - ... the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions.
Página 23 - Little else is requisite to carry a state to the " highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but " peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice ; " all the rest being brought about by the natural course of
Página 11 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
Página 39 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 22 - ... to demonstrate, that the most effectual plan for advancing a people to greatness, is to maintain that order of things which nature has pointed out, by allowing every man, as long as he observes the rules of justice, to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and his capital into the freest competition with those of his fellow-citizens.
Página 6 - I thought best once for all to let you know in plainness what I find of you, and what you shall find of me. You take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law, my experience, my discretion.
Página 1 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.