Lives of Philosophers of the Time of George III.R. Griffin, 1855 - 492 pages |
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... effect in making the reader familiar with the subject , while it cultivates and refines his taste . Under the head of Philosophers , it is unnecessary to observe upon any of the lives except those of Adam Smith , D'Alembert , and Simson ...
... effect in making the reader familiar with the subject , while it cultivates and refines his taste . Under the head of Philosophers , it is unnecessary to observe upon any of the lives except those of Adam Smith , D'Alembert , and Simson ...
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... effect , for inculcating or illustrating the great doc- trines of peace , freedom , and religious liberty . The observations on historical composition in the Life of Robertson , I especially consider as pointing to an improve- ment in ...
... effect , for inculcating or illustrating the great doc- trines of peace , freedom , and religious liberty . The observations on historical composition in the Life of Robertson , I especially consider as pointing to an improve- ment in ...
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... effects upon physical science . About the year 1763 he meditated closely upon the fact , that on the melting of ice ... effect on surrounding bodies , and being therefore insensible to the hand or to the thermometer , and only by its ...
... effects upon physical science . About the year 1763 he meditated closely upon the fact , that on the melting of ice ... effect on surrounding bodies , and being therefore insensible to the hand or to the thermometer , and only by its ...
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... effect of the combustion being perhaps to produce a compound inflammable in its nascent state , and the mixture being effected by draw- ing some string or wire working through the receiver's sides in an air - tight socket . The long ...
... effect of the combustion being perhaps to produce a compound inflammable in its nascent state , and the mixture being effected by draw- ing some string or wire working through the receiver's sides in an air - tight socket . The long ...
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... effect was such as cannot well be conceived . I have heard the greatest under- standings of the age giving forth their efforts in its most eloquent tongues - have heard the commanding periods of Pitt's majestic oratory - the vehemence ...
... effect was such as cannot well be conceived . I have heard the greatest under- standings of the age giving forth their efforts in its most eloquent tongues - have heard the commanding periods of Pitt's majestic oratory - the vehemence ...
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Page 54 - Who directing the Force of an Original Genius Early exercised in Philosophic Research To the Improvement of The...
Page 262 - I might be inclined to entertain some such thought; but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura — I cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation. The thing, in that mode, I do not know to be possible. As I meddle with no theory, I do not absolutely assert the impracticability of such a representation. But I do not see my way to it ; and those who have been more confident have not been more successful.
Page 283 - The life which I led at Glasgow was a pleasurable dissipated life in comparison of that which I lead here at Present. I have begun to write a book in order to pass away the time.
Page 415 - D'Alembert. But in the meantime Matthew Stewart, (Life of Simson, p. 137,) had undertaken to assail this question by the mere help of the ancient geometry, and had marvellously succeeded in reconciling the Newtonian theory with observation. Father Walmisley, a young English priest of the Benedictine order, also gave an analytical solution of the difficulty in 1749. The other great problem, the investigation of which occupied D'Alembert, was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the...
Page 228 - ... that insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman or politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuations of affairs.
Page 58 - ... four-fifths of the common air employed ; so that as common air cannot be reduced to a much less bulk than that by any method of phlogistication, we may safely conclude, that when they are mixed in this proportion, and exploded, almost all the inflammable air, and about one-fifth part of the common air, lose their elasticity, and are condensed into the dew which lines the glass.
Page 52 - ... and encouragement to all young persons who showed any indications of talent, or applied to him for patronage or advice. His health, which was delicate from his youth upwards, seemed to become firmer as he advanced in years, and he preserved up almost to the last moment of his existence, not only the full command of his extraordinary intellect, but all the alacrity of spirit, and the social gaiety which had illumined his happiest days.
Page 203 - ... seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society, with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board: he does not consider that the pieces upon the chessboard have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.
Page 314 - Lavoisier, as well as of the conclusion drawn from them, that dephlogisticated air is only water deprived of its phlogiston ; but, at that time, so far was M. Lavoisier from thinking any such opinion warranted, that till he was prevailed upon to repeat the experiment himself, he found some difficulty in believing that nearly the whole of the two airs could be converted into water.
Page 65 - Lavoisier, that Mr. Cavendish had drawn his conclusion before April 1783, although in one of the additions to that paper reference is made to Mr. Watt's theory. As great obscurity hangs over the material question at what time Mr. Cavendish first drew the conclusion from his experiment, it may be as well to examine what that great man's habit was in communicating his discoveries to the Royal Society.