| 1803 - Počet stránok 624
...the age of thirty-eight, he first appeared as an author in the Philosophical Transactions. Hia paper is entitled ' An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by...compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit.' This is, we believe, the first attack on the improper application of mathematical reasoning and language... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1803 - Počet stránok 238
...the time when it was written. It is entitled, An Eflay on Quantity, occafioned by reading a Treatife, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue And Merit ; and fhews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquifhed the favourite refearches... | |
| John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1805 - Počet stránok 452
...attachment even in old age. A paper which he published in the Philosophical Trarsactior.s c£- the Roy?.! Society of London for the year 1748, affords some light with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it was written. It is intituled, " An Essay on quantity, occasioned by reading... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - Počet stránok 738
...a large superficies, the firing is much quicker than when we only heat a small portion of the same. An Essay on Quantity : occasioned by reading a Treatise,...and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit. By the Rev. Mr. Reid. Communicated in a Letter from the Rev. Henry Miles., DD, FRS N° 48Q, p. 505.... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1811 - Počet stránok 620
...retained his attachment even in old age. A paper which he published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the year 1748, affords...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit ; and shews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches... | |
| John Aikin - 1813 - Počet stránok 720
...1748, affords some light'with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it \vas written. It is entitled «' An Essay on Quantity, occasioned...compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit ;" and shews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquished 3 R 2 REÍ ( 492 )... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - Počet stránok 538
...Philosophical Transactions of London in 174S. It was entitled "An, Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a Treatise in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," and shews plainly, that although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his youth,... | |
| 1816 - Počet stránok 536
...Philosophical Transactions of London in 1748. It was entitled "An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a Treatise in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," and shews plainly, that although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his youth,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - Počet stránok 538
...Philosophical Transactions of London in 1748. It was entitled " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a Treatise in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," and shews plainly, that although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his youth,... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1822 - Počet stránok 432
...748, affords some light with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it was written. It is entitled, " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned...plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his youth, he was beginning to direct his thoughts... | |
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