Prince Albert's golden precepts: or, The opinions and maxims of ... the prince consort, selected from his addresses, etcSampson Low & Company, 1862 - 133 oldal |
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17. oldal
... less true that , while we may reckon with a thoughtless security on the sun rising to - morrow , this is only a probable event , the probability of which is capable of being expressed by a deter- mined mathematical fraction . From the ...
... less true that , while we may reckon with a thoughtless security on the sun rising to - morrow , this is only a probable event , the probability of which is capable of being expressed by a deter- mined mathematical fraction . From the ...
35. oldal
... cutting , but waits for the reaper . Economy of labour is the essence of good husbandry , and no less so in the field of Science . NECESSITY OF METHOD . EVEN the comparison of the same D 2 OUR OBLIGATIONS TO THE PAST.
... cutting , but waits for the reaper . Economy of labour is the essence of good husbandry , and no less so in the field of Science . NECESSITY OF METHOD . EVEN the comparison of the same D 2 OUR OBLIGATIONS TO THE PAST.
54. oldal
... less an authority than Bernouilli , " the cradle of political arithmetic , " and that we may even appeal to our Domesday Book as one of the most ancient and complete monuments of the science in existence . It is this country also which ...
... less an authority than Bernouilli , " the cradle of political arithmetic , " and that we may even appeal to our Domesday Book as one of the most ancient and complete monuments of the science in existence . It is this country also which ...
75. oldal
... less marked and potent . We find on the one hand the wish to see secular and religious instruction separated , and the former recognised as an innate and inherent right , to which each member of society has a claim , and which ought not ...
... less marked and potent . We find on the one hand the wish to see secular and religious instruction separated , and the former recognised as an innate and inherent right , to which each member of society has a claim , and which ought not ...
78. oldal
... less than one year , 22 per cent . during one year , 15 per cent . during two years , 9 per cent . during three years , 5 per cent . during four years , and 4 per cent . during five years . Therefore , out of the two millions of ...
... less than one year , 22 per cent . during one year , 15 per cent . during two years , 9 per cent . during three years , 5 per cent . during four years , and 4 per cent . during five years . Therefore , out of the two millions of ...
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46. oldal - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points— the realization of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity, the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities.
2. oldal - ... person ; but it is more peculiarly the duty of those who, under the blessing of Divine Providence, enjoy station, wealth, and education.
45. oldal - I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives; and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.
46. oldal - ... placed within the reach of everybody ; thought is communicated with the rapidity, and even by the power, of lightning.
46. oldal - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.
3. oldal - Let them be careful, however, to avoid any dictatorial interference with labour and employment, which frightens away capital, destroys that freedom of thought and independence of action which must remain to every one if he is to work out his own happiness, and impairs that confidence under which alone engagements for mutual benefit are possible.
58. oldal - The Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
96. oldal - Please to recollect that this species of bore is a most useful animal, well adapted for the ends for which Nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to the cause which he advocates, and obtains that hearing which is granted him at last for self-protection, as the minor evil compared to his importunity, but which is requisite to make his cause understood.
107. oldal - ... all, can only embrace a comparatively short space of time, and a small number of experiments. From none of these causes can we hope for much progress ; for the mind, however ingenious, has no materials to work with, and remains in presence of phenomena, the causes of which are hidden from it. But...
12. oldal - The products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and the cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimulus of competition and capital.