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... manner that has every appearance of originality , or at least of being derived from no source with which we are at all acquainted . Before the time of Leonardo of Pisa , an important acquisition , also from the East , had greatly ...
... manner that has every appearance of originality , or at least of being derived from no source with which we are at all acquainted . Before the time of Leonardo of Pisa , an important acquisition , also from the East , had greatly ...
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... manner highly creditable to his own ingenuity , but not perfectly in the taste of the Greek geometry ; because , though the con- structions are elegant , the demonstrations are all synthetical . About the same period , Algebra became ...
... manner highly creditable to his own ingenuity , but not perfectly in the taste of the Greek geometry ; because , though the con- structions are elegant , the demonstrations are all synthetical . About the same period , Algebra became ...
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... manner that he sought to determine the laws of motion , and of the collision of bodies , in which last all his conclusions were erroneous . From the same source he deduced the existence of a plenum , and the continual preservation of ...
... manner that he sought to determine the laws of motion , and of the collision of bodies , in which last all his conclusions were erroneous . From the same source he deduced the existence of a plenum , and the continual preservation of ...
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... manner , each planet is itself the centre of a smaller vortex , by the subtile matter of which the phe- nomena of gravity are produced , just as with us at the surface of the earth . The gradation of smaller vortices may be continued in ...
... manner , each planet is itself the centre of a smaller vortex , by the subtile matter of which the phe- nomena of gravity are produced , just as with us at the surface of the earth . The gradation of smaller vortices may be continued in ...
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... manner , the connection between the laws of motion and the motion of the earth , and made experiments to show , that a body carried along by another acquires a motion which remains after it has ceased to be so carried . Gassendi first ...
... manner , the connection between the laws of motion and the motion of the earth , and made experiments to show , that a body carried along by another acquires a motion which remains after it has ceased to be so carried . Gassendi first ...
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Página 78 - Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide. Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric' scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Página 173 - ... of a Turkey carpet. It is sympathy with the present or the past, or the imaginary inhabitants of such a region, that alone gives it either interest or beauty; and the delight of those who behold it, will always be found to be in exact proportion to the force of their imaginations, and the warmth of their social affections. The leading impressions, here, are those of romantic seclusion, and primeval simplicity; lovers sequestered in these blissful solitudes, " from towns and toils remote...
Página 74 - The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either.
Página 10 - It seems to me, that when the animalcules, which form the corals at the bottom of the ocean, cease to live, their structures adhere to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn to increase,...
Página 26 - As things are at present conducted," he adds, " a sudden transition is made from sensible objects and particular facts to general propositions, which are accounted principles, and round which, as round so many fixed poles, disputation and argument continually revolve. From the propositions thus hastily assumed, all things are derived by a process compendious and precipitate ; ill suited to discovery, but wonderfully accommodated to debate. The way that promises success is the reverse of this. It...
Página 178 - In so far as mere feeling and enjoyment are concerned, therefore, it seems evident that the best taste must be that which belongs to the best affections, the most active fancy, and the most attentive habits of observation. It will follow pretty exactly too, that all men's perceptions of beauty will be nearly in proportion to the degree of their sensibility and social sympathies...
Página 175 - And what is it that constitutes that emotion of sublime delight, which every man of common sensibility feels upon the first prospect of Rome ? It is not the scene of destruction which is before him.
Página 179 - As all men must have some peculiar associations, all men must have some peculiar notions of beauty, and, of course, to a certain extent, a taste that the public would be entitled to consider as false or vitiated.
Página 175 - ... ordinary mortals, just because he perceives more of these analogies and relations to social emotion, in which all beauty consists; so other men see more or less of this beauty, exactly as they happen to possess that fancy, or those habits, which enable them readily to trace out these relations. From all these sources of evidence, then, we think it is pretty well made out, that the beauty or sublimity of external objects is nothing but the reflection of emotions excited by the feelings or condition...
Página 43 - ... throughout all civilized countries. Princes on whose will there were no legal checks, thus found a moral restraint which the most powerful of them could not brave with absolute impunity. They acted before a vast audience, to whose applause or condemnation they could not be utterly indifferent. The very constitution of human nature, the unalterable laws of the mind of man, against which all rebellion is fruitless, subjected the proudest tyrants to this control. No elevation of power, no depravity,...