The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 92A. Constable, 1850 |
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... class abovementioned were first success- fully treated by De Moivre , to whom also we owe the happy idea of applying Stirling's theorem to approximate to the ratio of the high numbers which enter into such calculations , without which ...
... class abovementioned were first success- fully treated by De Moivre , to whom also we owe the happy idea of applying Stirling's theorem to approximate to the ratio of the high numbers which enter into such calculations , without which ...
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... class may be considered as entirely eliminated by their mutual destruction when vast numbers are concerned , and the whole series of col- lected cases is so investigated as to afford a single result . The same process also will in great ...
... class may be considered as entirely eliminated by their mutual destruction when vast numbers are concerned , and the whole series of col- lected cases is so investigated as to afford a single result . The same process also will in great ...
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... classes is doubled , since each constituent of a double star counts as a separate case . Taking 12,400 as the number of stars of the magnitudes and within the region of the heavens contemplated , viz . from the North Pole to 15 ° south ...
... classes is doubled , since each constituent of a double star counts as a separate case . Taking 12,400 as the number of stars of the magnitudes and within the region of the heavens contemplated , viz . from the North Pole to 15 ° south ...
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Or Critical Journal. results , nor to the actual discussion of any particular class of documents , but to the points which it so much imports to have generally well understood of the methods and principles which ought to prevail in the ...
Or Critical Journal. results , nor to the actual discussion of any particular class of documents , but to the points which it so much imports to have generally well understood of the methods and principles which ought to prevail in the ...
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... the influence which the relative pro- portions between the classes , as to age , condition , calling , must necessarily have on national character and habits , and in weigh- ing - with reference to future prospects — the probable.
... the influence which the relative pro- portions between the classes , as to age , condition , calling , must necessarily have on national character and habits , and in weigh- ing - with reference to future prospects — the probable.
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Seite 352 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Seite 276 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Seite 327 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Seite 90 - Stoop then, and wash. — How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown ? Bru.
Seite 332 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
Seite 347 - This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Seite 557 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.