The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen92A. Constable, 1850 |
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... greater intensities of the im- pression , and in both there is proof that equal increments of a certain element , purely ideal in the one , though possibly sub- stantial in the other , answer to equal numerical differences on the scale ...
... greater intensities of the im- pression , and in both there is proof that equal increments of a certain element , purely ideal in the one , though possibly sub- stantial in the other , answer to equal numerical differences on the scale ...
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... greater the error the less its probability , according to some regular LAW of progression , which must necessarily be general and apply alike to all cases , since the causes of error are supposed alike unknown in all ; and it is on this ...
... greater the error the less its probability , according to some regular LAW of progression , which must necessarily be general and apply alike to all cases , since the causes of error are supposed alike unknown in all ; and it is on this ...
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... greater the total number of determinations . - Such being the case , and the law of distribution of errors over the whole range of possible error being known , it becomes practicable to assign the relative numbers of cases in which the ...
... greater the total number of determinations . - Such being the case , and the law of distribution of errors over the whole range of possible error being known , it becomes practicable to assign the relative numbers of cases in which the ...
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... greater deviations than shall be fairly attributable to a want of observations numerous enough to bring out the truth ? In the instance before us , the answer to this inquiry is contained in the results of calculation as compared with ...
... greater deviations than shall be fairly attributable to a want of observations numerous enough to bring out the truth ? In the instance before us , the answer to this inquiry is contained in the results of calculation as compared with ...
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... greater the deviation . Now all com- binations being equally possible individually , and those combi- nations which can alone give rise to the extremes of error being necessarily very much fewer in number than those which result in ...
... greater the deviation . Now all com- binations being equally possible individually , and those combi- nations which can alone give rise to the extremes of error being necessarily very much fewer in number than those which result in ...
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Página 352 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 276 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Página 327 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense 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.
Página 90 - Stoop then, and wash. — How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown ? Bru.
Página 332 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
Página 347 - This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Página 557 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.