 If we consult reason, experience, and the common testimony of ancient and modern times, none of our intellectual studies tend to cultivate a smaller number of the faculties, in a more partial or feeble manner, than mathematics.  The Culture Demanded by Modern Life; - Page xiiby Edward Livingston Youmans - 1867 - 492 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1836 - 558 lehte
...yntlirxju- nv'rat £(' iriv otv*<h< *tirfa**if '{***>,<**? twrwirtwdivftutf, Hfty( ft, , vt^ *& srwiwJii^iw. If we consult reason, experience, and the common testimony...smaller number of the faculties, in a more partial manner, than mathematics. This is acknowledged by every writer on education of the least pretension... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 lehte
...the whole circle of the higher powers, may almost pretend to accomplish alone the work of catholic education. If we consult reason, experience, and the...of the least pretension to judgment and experience ; nor is it denied, even by those who arc the most decidedly opposed to their total banishment from... | |
 | 1856 - 396 lehte
...William Hamilton, preeminently the thinker of this century says : " If we consult reason, experience, nnd the common testimony of ancient and modern times,...intellectual studies tend to cultivate a smaller number of our faculties in a more partial or feeble manner than mathematics." To such as have not deeply reflected... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 lehte
...the whole circle of the higher powers, may almost pretend to accomplish alone the work of Catholic education. If we consult reason, experience, and the...cultivate a smaller number of the faculties, in a mare partial or feeble manner, than mathematics. This is acknowledged by every writer on education... | |
 | 1864 - 348 lehte
...to be found in our language, the following words may be taken as the key note of his conclusions : "If we consult reason, experience, and the common...studies tend to cultivate a smaller number of the /acuities in a more partial or feeble manner, tfian Mathematics. This is acknowledged by every writer... | |
 | 1856 - 394 lehte
...reasoning itself. The late Sir William Hamilton, preeminently the thinker of this century says : " If we consult reason, experience, and the common testimony...intellectual studies tend to cultivate a smaller number of our faculties in a more partial or feeble manner than mathematics." To such as have not deeply reflected... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1870 - 1232 lehte
...discipline of the mind. Yet Sir William Hamilton says, " If we consult reason, experience, and the testimony of ancient and modern times, none of our...intellectual studies tend to cultivate a smaller number of faculties in a more partial manner than mathematics." Grammar, too, if taught mechanically, according... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 816 lehte
...the whole circle of the higher powers, may almost pretend to accomplish alone the work of Catholic education. If we consult reason, experience, and the...of the least pretension to judgment and experience ; nor is it denied, even by those who are the most decidedly opposed to their total banishment from... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - 1865 - 504 lehte
...is the value of Mathematics in this respect? In discussing this point, Sir William Hamilton says: " If we consult reason, experience, and the common testimony...a more partial or feeble manner than Mathematics." In proof of this opinion, he quotes a large number of authorities, a few of whom I shall take the liberty... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - 1865 - 504 lehte
...is the value of Mathematics in this respect ? In discussing this point, Sir William Hamilton says: "If we consult reason, experience, and the common...none of our intellectual studies tend to cultivate a sraaller number of the faculties^ in a more partial or feeble manner than Mathematics." In proof of... | |
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