The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science. AuthorsVizetelly, Branston and Company, 1834 |
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... Simson , Robert 124 Masklelyne , Nevil 187 Sloane , Sir Hans ... 115 Milner , Dean of Carlisle 495 Smeaton , John .. 175 Mudge , John 485 Smith , Sir James Edward 230 Needham , John Turberville ........ 483 Solander , Daniel Charles ...
... Simson , Robert 124 Masklelyne , Nevil 187 Sloane , Sir Hans ... 115 Milner , Dean of Carlisle 495 Smeaton , John .. 175 Mudge , John 485 Smith , Sir James Edward 230 Needham , John Turberville ........ 483 Solander , Daniel Charles ...
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BROOK TAYLOR . ROBERT SIMSON . that he could distinguish the fifth part of a note ; could judge of the size of a room by the same sense ; and , even he walked over a pavement , in courts or piazzas , which reflected a sound , and was ...
BROOK TAYLOR . ROBERT SIMSON . that he could distinguish the fifth part of a note ; could judge of the size of a room by the same sense ; and , even he walked over a pavement , in courts or piazzas , which reflected a sound , and was ...
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ROBERT SIMSON . MARTIN FOLKES . |. humous papers , were found detached parts of a treatise on the Jewish sacri- fices , and a dissertation , of great length , on the lawfulness of eating blood . He is said to have drawn figures with ...
ROBERT SIMSON . MARTIN FOLKES . |. humous papers , were found detached parts of a treatise on the Jewish sacri- fices , and a dissertation , of great length , on the lawfulness of eating blood . He is said to have drawn figures with ...
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... Robert Simson , professor of mathematics in the University of Glasgow , in the notes to the second edition of his Euclid . His objections were answered , by the sub- ject of our memoir , in a second edition of the Elements ; in the ...
... Robert Simson , professor of mathematics in the University of Glasgow , in the notes to the second edition of his Euclid . His objections were answered , by the sub- ject of our memoir , in a second edition of the Elements ; in the ...
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... Robert Simson , under whom he became profoundly skilled in the different departments of that science , for which he had formed a particular predilection . But , as was to be expected , under the tuition of so staunch a geometrician as ...
... Robert Simson , under whom he became profoundly skilled in the different departments of that science , for which he had formed a particular predilection . But , as was to be expected , under the tuition of so staunch a geometrician as ...
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Seite 370 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Seite 312 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Seite 144 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father ; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Seite 311 - Candide, written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other.
Seite 368 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Seite 307 - Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible.
Seite 307 - I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me, I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there.
Seite 420 - During the last year of my residence at Cambridge, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled "Descriptive Sketches"; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.
Seite 385 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.
Seite 314 - The doctor, having first asked him if he could bear the whole truth, which way soever it might lead, and being answered that he could, declared that, in his opinion, he could not recover without a miracle. " Then," said Johnson, " I will take no more physic, not even my opiates ; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded."^) In this resolution he persevered, and, at the same time, used only the weakest kinds of sustenance.