 | 1803 - 624 pages
...age of thirty-eight, he first appeared as an author in the Philosophical Transactions. Hia paper is entitled ' An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit.' This is, we believe, the first attack on the improper application... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1805 - 452 pages
...light with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it was written. It is intituled, " An Essay on quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit;" and shews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 738 pages
...a large superficies, the firing is much quicker than when we only heat a small portion of the same. An Essay on Quantity : occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit. By the Rev. Mr. Reid. Communicated in a Letter from the Rev.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...1748, affords some light with respect to the progress of his speculations about this period. It is entitled, An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit ; and shews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had... | |
 | John Aikin - 1813 - 720 pages
...affords some light'with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it \vas written. It is entitled «' An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit ;" and shews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 pages
...affords some light with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it was written. It is entitled, " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit;" and shows plainly, by its contents, that, although he had... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 320 pages
...1748, affords some light with respect to the progress of his speculations about this period. It is entitled "- An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a treatise, in which simple and compound ratios are applied to virtue, and merit;" and shews plainly, by its contents, that al. though he had... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 pages
...affords some light with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it was written. It is entitled, " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit;" and shows plainly, by its contents, that, although he had... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...affords some light with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it was written. It is entitled, " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit;" and shows plainly, by its contents, that, although he had... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...his appointment he had published a very acute paper in the ' Philosophical Transactions' for 1748, entitled, 'An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise in which simple and compound ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit.' The treatise alluded to was Hutcheson's ' Enquiry into the... | |
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An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit... 
