| Tobias Smollett - 1803 - 624 oldal
...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 - 238 oldal
...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 - 452 oldal
...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 - 738 oldal
...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.... | |
| John Aikin - 1813 - 720 oldal
...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...plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquished 3 R 2 REÍ ( 492 ) the favourite researches of his youth, he was beginning to... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1818 - 466 oldal
...it was written. It is entitled, " An Essay on Quantity, oeeasioned by reading a Treatise, in whieh Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit ;" and shews plainly, by its eontents, that, although he had not entirely relinquished the favourite researehes of his youth, he... | |
| 1816 - 536 oldal
...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, he was beginning... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 538 oldal
...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, he was beginning... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 538 oldal
...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, he was beginning... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 oldal
...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...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit;" and shows plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquished the favourite researches... | |
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