The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 92A. Constable, 1850 |
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... Letters addressed to H.R. H. the Grand Duke of Saxe - Cobourg and Gotha on the Theory of Probabi- lities as applied to the Moral and Political Sciences . By M. A. Quetelet , Astronomer Royal of Belgium , Corresponding Member of the ...
... Letters addressed to H.R. H. the Grand Duke of Saxe - Cobourg and Gotha on the Theory of Probabi- lities as applied to the Moral and Political Sciences . By M. A. Quetelet , Astronomer Royal of Belgium , Corresponding Member of the ...
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... Letters addressed to H. R. H. the Grand Duke of Saxe - Co- bourg and Gotha on the Theory of Probabilities as applied to the Moral and Political Sciences . By M. A. QUETELET , Astronomer Royal of Belgium , Corresponding Member of the ...
... Letters addressed to H. R. H. the Grand Duke of Saxe - Co- bourg and Gotha on the Theory of Probabilities as applied to the Moral and Political Sciences . By M. A. QUETELET , Astronomer Royal of Belgium , Corresponding Member of the ...
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... letters to an illustrious personage in which it appears , and of which ( though as he informs us , so originally written ) a very moderate amount of subsequent alteration would have divested it . Although nothing which can be considered ...
... letters to an illustrious personage in which it appears , and of which ( though as he informs us , so originally written ) a very moderate amount of subsequent alteration would have divested it . Although nothing which can be considered ...
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... letter ) or a scientific art , we concern ourselves little . Define it as we may , it is the basis of social and political dynamics , and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypothesis of ...
... letter ) or a scientific art , we concern ourselves little . Define it as we may , it is the basis of social and political dynamics , and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypothesis of ...
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... letter - short , indeed , and somewhat desultory ; but abounding in useful and sensible remarks . Each of them would , in fact , require a trea- tise for its complete illustration . A fool can ask questions , but only a wise man ...
... letter - short , indeed , and somewhat desultory ; but abounding in useful and sensible remarks . Each of them would , in fact , require a trea- tise for its complete illustration . A fool can ask questions , but only a wise man ...
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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.