The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 7. köideH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... contain some of the most important contributions which have been made to the philosophy of mathematical method ; and ... contains in the latter part a most luminous and philo- sophical view of existing and possible systems of symbolic ...
... contain some of the most important contributions which have been made to the philosophy of mathematical method ; and ... contains in the latter part a most luminous and philo- sophical view of existing and possible systems of symbolic ...
Page 66
... contains a profound investigation into the principles of symbolic reasoning ; the latter is still the most complete mathematical treatise on the subject in the English language , giving as it does a resumé of Laplace's Theorie ...
... contains a profound investigation into the principles of symbolic reasoning ; the latter is still the most complete mathematical treatise on the subject in the English language , giving as it does a resumé of Laplace's Theorie ...
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... containing no less than 20 masses , is in the possession of the Papal chapel in Rome . The well - known works by Drs ... contains the site of the old dockyard , and the royal victualling yard is also situated there . The former was ...
... containing no less than 20 masses , is in the possession of the Papal chapel in Rome . The well - known works by Drs ... contains the site of the old dockyard , and the royal victualling yard is also situated there . The former was ...
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... contains an area of 656,243 statute acres , equal to about 1025 square miles . Its population in 1851 amounted to 296,084 persons , in 1861 to 339,327 , and in 1871 to 379,394 , of whom 190,657 were males , and 188,737 females . From ...
... contains an area of 656,243 statute acres , equal to about 1025 square miles . Its population in 1851 amounted to 296,084 persons , in 1861 to 339,327 , and in 1871 to 379,394 , of whom 190,657 were males , and 188,737 females . From ...
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... contains a notice of his life by Brazier . See also Saint Beuve's Portraits Contemporains . DESAULT , PIERRE JOSEPH ( 1744–95 ) , a distinguished French anatomist and surgeon , was born at Magny - Vernais , a village of Franche - Compté ...
... contains a notice of his life by Brazier . See also Saint Beuve's Portraits Contemporains . DESAULT , PIERRE JOSEPH ( 1744–95 ) , a distinguished French anatomist and surgeon , was born at Magny - Vernais , a village of Franche - Compté ...
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Page 102 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach ; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Page 2 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 2 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 72 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 174 - I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe.
Page 102 - I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature : and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days.
Page 319 - Cambridge, and having been admitted advocates in pursuance of the rescript of the Archbishop of Canterbury, shall have been elected fellows of the college in the manner prescribed by the charter.
Page 302 - Marriage shall be declared to be dissolved, but not sooner, it shall be lawful for the respective Parties thereto to marry again, as if the prior Marriage had been dissolved by Death...
Page 240 - I said I could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence — that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet...
Page 174 - Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe. I had a greedy relish for a few volumes of Voyages and Travels...